HOW TO APPLY CHANGE

Sir,

Change doesn’t come automatically, you don’t wake up in the morning and say I’ve changed but you have to go through processes. My teacher used to say; “It’s easy and takes a short time to destroy your good reputation than building a good one.”

Sometimes it takes many years to rebuild a reputation that was destroyed within a blink of an eye. But even if it’s like that, I like the fact that you can change and change is intentional; you choose to change.

Change can happen anytime, anywhere and to everybody. Most of the time you find that friends are barriers to our change but as it’s intentional you make a decision for yourself. Some say in order to change, you must first confess your sins to God.
But it does not come like that, the first step is to make a decision to change and then confess your sins to God.

In order to change, there are four steps one has to pass through. Firstly, it’s a desire to change, yes change is a choice, and it’s a decision that comes within a person’s heart. Without that decision it’s difficult for one to change.

‘You can take a horse to the river but you can’t force it to drink’ and the same applies with change. No matter how many times they can shout at you to stop drinking alcohol, but without making a decision that ‘enough is enough I want that change’, you can’t change.

The second step is to know what to do and how to do it; for one to change one must know what he or she has to do in order to change. It happens that most people make decisions but without knowing what to do and how to do it to make their decision happen.
The best way is to have a good climate in order for one to apply change. This is the third step; choose a suitable condition that will allow you to change.

For instance, it happens that you make a decision to change but due to bad influence from your friends you find it difficult to change. Just isolate yourself from them, not because you think you’re better but because of the motive you have.

Most fail to change because they say no I won’t isolate myself from them but I will not join them in their bad habits.
For example; “I’ll not drink alcohol, I’ll buy myself a soft drink.” Yes you can drink it but one or two days after that I promise the next thing you’ll drink alcohol; and definitely you’ve failed.

The last step is a reward for changing. Good things are praised. Maybe you’ll not be praised by those around you but the omnipotent God will reward you. He said those who sow righteousness will rip righteousness, He’s faithful trust me. You’ll be rewarded for your positive changing.

Mcolisi Simelane
CIT student

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