“Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed” (I Corinthians 15:51).

Changed (Def): (Gr.): Allosso from Allos: Something else, To make different

There is something mysterious, indeed, about transformation. One day someone is acting one way, of a certain opinion and thought; then they just change. What happened? One may ask.

There is an old saying, “One thing will never change, things will change.” A truism that is good for the ages.

Have you changed? John Newton (1725-1807) changed. Who is John Newton? Maybe this will familiarize you with him:

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see. (1779)

They Just Change. How do you go from being lost to found; from being lost in sin to being found in Him who is without sin? How do you go from being blind to the Way to God, to the Truth of God, and to the Life of Christ; and then suddenly your eyes are opened by some revelation, by some epiphany, by some awakening and you see the invisible, the unseen, God?

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (I Corinthians 15:52).

In a moment they just change. In a moment, in the blink of an eye we become something else, something other. The Apostles witnessed Christ change on the Mount of Transfiguation:

“It came to pass Jesus took Peter, James and John into a mountain to pray. As Jesus prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered and His raiment was white and glistening” (Luke 9:29).

Mark describes thusly:

“His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, as no fuller on earth can whiten them” (Mark 9:3)

Matthew says:

“Jesus was transfigured before them, His face did shine as the sun and His raiment was white as the light” (Matthew 17:2).

Job knew about change. He asked:

“If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, until my change come” (Job 14:14).

They Just Change. We are all going to change, for better or worse. Jesus said:

“As the Father has Life in Himself, so He has given the Son to have Life in Himself. He has given Him authority to execute judgment also because He is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice and shall come forth, they that have done good to the resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation” (John 5:26-29).

You are going to change. You are not going to stay the same. You are going to be something else, something other than what you are now.

The Apostle John spoke of this in his first Epistle:

“Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. . .and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is” (I John 3:1a-2).

Do you want to change? Amazing Grace how sweet the sound. Do you hear that sound? Follow that sound. It will lead you to Life and then what happens? Well, They just change.

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