YOUTH AND THE POWER OF CHANGE
“Change will not come if we wait for some
other person or some other time. We are the change we’ve been waiting for- President Barack Obama
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Change
always comes bearing gifts”- Price Pritchett. Change is part of life. It is part of man but the ideology about
change is quite difference from the reality of what is the true meaning of
change. No human being wants to remain in a place while time goes by,
development and improvement enable individual to move ahead as earth revolves- Abdulkareem Suleman. It is an
undoubtedly fact to say that change always brings us pain, discomfort,
complaint, sometimes tears, sometimes shares our bloods. This is because it
removes something from the inside of us that we did not prepare, and replaces
with something new and different we did not expect either. But then, this change
in the long run brings us joy, comfort, dynamism, gain, honor, progress,
promotion, and many good things. It could also bring us regret, pains,
unhappiness, tears and negative consequences if we allow the negative change to
visit us. Change is permanent, so they said. Almost every human being believes
change is permanent but don’t be confused to hear that the permanency of change
in itself is dynamism and that the only thing permanent is death. Change is
constant and continuous over time. Change in my definition is a force of
dynamism or regression. As you progress in the course of reading this chapter we
shall look at the type of change and its level.
DEFINITION:
Change
is a natural force responsible for the increase or decrease capability in the
live of any organism. Change can either be appreciating or depreciating. If the
change grows positively in terms of value, productivity, improvement, and
creativity, we say it is a positive
change. A negative change has to do with depreciation loses, regression,
decrease in its original value and declining in earning ability, as well as the
lack of happiness.
Change
is the only unforeseen force that displaces an organism from his original
position. This position could be dynamic or regressive. One thing we should
know about change is that it is a force that is determined and controlled by
the organism, spiritual forces, events or circumstances, and time.
TYPE OF CHANGE:
1.
NATURAL CHANGE: Natural change is determined by the environment where we found
ourselves, situations and events round about us, the church, and even our
cultures. This type of change is so powerful that if not properly controlled
could control and determine the extent of our changes. This natural change
influences the way we think, reason, our perceptions, as well as our personality.
Youths who allow the natural change to control them determine their fate by
chance or probability. This type of persons could be victims of accident,
victim of circumstances. Sometime, they can be victim of success by chance. If
you asked them how comes that you made it? You hear them telling you, I do not
know how it happens or still, they could attribute such success or
circumstances to natural forces. Some believe they were born to succeed, even
if they don’t do it they will still succeed. Others believe they have little or
no controlled over circumstances happening to them. These categories of youths
are like leaves on top of a river tossed about by every wind and waves.
2.
PERSONAL CHANGE: This type of change is specifically determined by the youth himself.
These set of youths make Deut. 30:15 their watch words, “I have set before you
this day life and death”. So it is all about their personally decision plus
God’s intervention. This involves the individual making decision and backing
such decision with actions. Here, the individual refused to be controlled by
unforeseen forces of natural change. It is important to state that personal change
occurs as a result of the individual mind
set, his mentality
and the level of his exposure
to circumstances. Personal change is part of the mandate that God has given us
the power to make decisions that affects our well being. Here, you make plans
and how you can executive them. These sets of people fail but never allow
failure to paralyze them, rather they live their lives doing what they know how
to do the best they can.
These set of youths have visions and will not let this
visions die. These set of youths are the one who say to themselves like Brother
Job: “I know my Redeemer lives”; or like Paul: “I can do all things through
Christ that strengthens me”, come rain, come sun, I will never call it a quit. They
will declare to themselves “God has made me for his purpose- Isaiah 43:6-7, I
shall not fail.” Unlike those who usually confess negatively saying “that is
how God wants it, there is nothing I can do about it”. These kinds of
statements are lies from the pit of hell. Who said God wants it that way? Wake
up and be the real person God programmed you to be.
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