CHANGE FOR GOD SAKE

"We change when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of changing." This quote has serious impart if you allow it to sink into your soul. A life lived without Grace has serious pain attached to it. Why is change so hard? Why does their need to be pain attached to it.
It is so true in my life. When I become so comfortable, I tend not to grow, I stagnate, I become complacent. I become lazy. I become unfeeling. I get arrogant, selfish, and petty. All true signs there needs to be some course correction. I never realized this until the desire to be a very mature man became a priority in my life. Now I am not satisfied to stay in a place of none growth very long. It becomes very painful to stay there. My mind races all over the place, My stomach aches, and I just feel so uneasy. My relationship begins to suffer, with God, my wife, and my children. As I fight the change it become unbearable to function as a mature person. I become sullen, quiet, and just plain rude. The pain is so self-Inflicted that I will either make the change or quench the Holy Spirit. How many times have I quenched the Holy Spirits moving? I cannot count them. But I can let you in on a secret, if you quench the Holy Spirits move for change, the pain goes away, your conscience is seared, and everything is good again, so it seems. Please consider what i never did. You hurt people, you become narcissistic, and you see yourself as never wrong. Then you have no need for change.
Or you can just Change, and make it easy on yourself. You see we always have a choice, a free will, A crossroad, which reminds me of another quote. " Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." Change is the less traveled by road, because it takes us out of our comfort zone, and makes us grow.
Change is what continues to make our lives interesting. It really is a good thing. As I grow and mature with each step in my life I continue to see opened doors of faith, mercy and special events I would of missed without the change. Change is very hard, but it does make all the difference! Please Lord do not let me rest in myself.