I just got my copy of the book, Killing Cockroaches, by Tony Morgan. Although I haven’t thought of change as the need to kill cockroaches, I can see the connection as I read this book. In the section on Embracing Change, Morgan quotes Sir Francis Bacon,
“If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.”
Thus, we have to kill those cockroaches before we can embrace change. Morgan goes on to state that God loves the fresh and the new. God shows us this love every spring as life begins to sprout anew to glorify God. God even tells us of his love in Isaiah 43:18-19:
Forget the former things;
Do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new Thing!
Now it springs up;
Do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
And streams in the wasteland.
Are we willing to embrace change?
Are we willing to let God show us something new and wonderful?
