… Fix your attention on God, You’ll be changed from the Inside out. Romans 12:1

 

Chuck Swindoll says, 'You're over the hill when: (a) the stewardess offers you coffee, tea or Milk of Magnesia (b) you sink your teeth into a juicy steak and they stay there (c) there's more hair stuck in the drain than on your head (d) everything you once had, you still have; except now it's all four inches lower.' And let's add - when you're no longer willing to change. You see, when you're through with changing - you're through! Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist who made his fortune by inventing dynamite and other explosives used for weapons. When his brother died, a newspaper accidentally printed Alfred's obituary instead. It described him as a man who'd become rich by enabling people to kill each other in unprecedented numbers. Deeply shaken, he resolved to use his fortune to award accomplishments that benefited humanity - hence The Nobel Prize. Nobel had the rare opportunity to re-evaluate his life towards the end and still live long enough to do something about it. Comedian Jerry Lewis joked that his best wedding gift was a film of the entire marriage ceremony. He said that when things got really bad at home, he'd go into a room, close the door, run the film backwards and walk out a free man! Now I doubt if you'll be able to do that, or even read your obituary in the newspaper. You can, however, make a choice to change, and when that change is successful; you'll look back and call it growth.