Change Is Possible

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Jesus, John Piper, Daily Devotional, Desiring God, Solid Joys, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Devotional

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Don’t be a fatalist. Be a Christian. Change is possible. God is alive. Christ is risen. The promises are true.

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0:00.0	November 17. Change is possible. Put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in
0:10.9	true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 424. Christianity means change is possible. Deep, fundamental change. It is possible to become
0:25.1	tender-hearted when once you were callous and insensitive. It is possible to stop being
0:33.4	dominated by bitterness and anger. It is possible to become a loving person,
0:41.3	no matter what your background has been.
0:45.3	The Bible assumes that God is the decisive factor
0:51.3	in making us what we should be.
0:55.0	With wonderful bluntness, the Bible says,
0:58.0	put away all malice and be tender-hearted.
1:04.0	Ephesians 4 31 and 32.
1:08.0	It does not say, if you can, or if your parents were tender-hearted, or if you have not been
1:17.6	terribly abused, it says, be tender-hearted. This is wonderfully freeing.
1:35.0	It frees us from the terrible fatalism that says change is impossible for me.
1:41.9	It frees me from the mechanistic views that make my background my destiny.
1:50.0	And God's commands always come with freeing, life-changing truth to believe.
1:56.3	For example, God adopted us as his children.
1:59.9	We have a new father and a new family. This breaks the fatalistic forces of our family of origin.
2:05.6	Call no man your father on earth, for you have one father who is in heaven.
2:13.6	Matthew 239.
2:15.6	God loves us as his children
2:18.3	We are loved children
2:21.3	Ephesians 5 1
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