Less that two percent of the atoms in your body were there 12 months ago. 98% of the atoms in a living human being get replaced each year, through the body’s natural building processes including breathing, eating and drinking. So no matter how hard you try to be the same person you’ve always been, you are constantly changing, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
You can choose to make change your enemy, or you can choose to make it your friend. If change is your enemy, then your life will be filled with a continuing series of unpleasant surprises. If change is your friend, then each day is an opportunity to experience something new, to learn something new, to meet new people, and embrace more of the good things God has provided.
If only followers of Jesus were less conservative and more future-focussed and change-friendly. Then we could imagine a world in which poor people really are hearing good news, prisoners really are being set free, blind people are seeing, oppressed people are being released from their oppression, and the favourable year of the Lord is arriving.