Good morning,

This past sunday I began a series on “I need to Change”. Hopefully it is our desire to be successful at whatever we put our time and efforts towards - job, marriage, relationship and our walk with Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, we often try to be successful with out changing ourselves. Our desire is to have the other person and/or situation change - not me. This is when frustration, anger and trouble begins when we look for our happiness based upon the other person changing.

Unless something different happens, nothing different is going to happen.

There was a mailman, John Hand, who rode his mail truck through Los Altos Hills of California on his 50 mile route each day. The route was plain, all brown and virtually no color. He told his wife he was going to go to his boss and demand a change or he would quit.

She asked him to wait and pray about it and the next day she brought home some wild flower seeds for him and asked him to do something different today and throw the seeds out of the window as he drove. He reluctantly said I will do it, but didn’t think throwing down some seeds would make any difference.

Today, if you travel his route in the Los Altos Hills you’ll find beautiful patches of flowers throughout, blossoming in many colors. His decision to do something different made a difference.

We all travel different roads. Sadly, many of us miss wonderful opportunities to change and bring added beauty to our landscapes. In our families, at our jobs, in the world around us, God has given us opportunities to color those landscapes! It’s far easier for us to complain and resign ourselves to settling for those landscapes, than it is to be the catalysts of change. From this point on, let’s resolve to stop complaining about the lifelessness around us and do something about it!

God has given us the power and anointing to change those landscapes! Let’s sow the seeds of love, joy, righteousness and all the tasty fruits of the Spirit. As we sow them throughout our daily lives, those dull, dry landscapes will begin blossom into something beautiful and we, like that mailman, John Hand, will be remembered as the ones who sowed those seeds.

Matthew 13:23

But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

Be a sower of seed producing fruit of a 100-fold! There’s so much work to be done! YOu will never change your life until you change your thinking.

Remember, Unless something different happens, nothing different is going to happen.

Have a great week!

Your Servant,

Pastor Grant