Desperately want change.

Some people change when they see the light. Other people change when they feel the heat. Which type of person are you? Do you change when you see the light, when you see something in your life that you recognize? "You know, I really need to change that; I really need to work on that." Or do you put if off because, "You know, it's really not urgent now." Do you wait until you feel the heat?

Sometimes you just don't have a real desire to change. Sometimes you don't have a real desire, and desire that is the key because it's very easy to wish you were different, to wish you were different, to kinda, sort of hope you can change. It's safe and secure, it's easy. How much do you really desire to change?

"All have said I would do anything to change." No, you just wish you could. It is wishful thinking. A couple of things that you have to look at if you want to really desire to change; you must first of all despise sin. Oftentimes it's easy to see things in your life that you "kind of" would like to change, wish would change but you don't despise it yet. You don't see it the way God does.

If you’d like to change it, then ask yourself: how much do you despise it? How much do you despise it, or is it just an annoyance? Maybe it's something that you just hope no one else ever finds out about you. Or is it something that you desperately want to change because you hate it and you see how it works and can see the results of that kind of thing. And maybe you’ve seen scripture of what God thinks about it and you want your mind to be like His. How much do you despise it?

And in order to desire change you must look to the end and see the result of change from it. Look to the end. See the result when you do change. Matthew 18. Change brings reward. It's far greater than the pleasures of whatever sin is today, you might know that, but how much are you really focused on that reward? Have you really focused on what happens after this life as a result of being willing to struggle to change? To begin to escape sins control, you have to despise the sin, and you also have to deeply desire change and be able to see the end result from that change.

"If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into the next life with one eye, rather than having two eyes, (to) be cast into hell’s fire." The principle is how far are you willing to go. Are you willing to really struggle, and overcome, and change?

When you think of the things that you want to change, Do you want to change them badly enough that you're willing to do what it takes, to go through the struggles you’re going to face, to endure the pain of change? If you don't despise it yet you’re just wishing for change. Desperately want change, despise it because you hate sins control.