Change is hard. Really hard. Especially a change that questions everything you thought you knew. But the change process has to begin with a profound admission that the old ways do not work, trying harder won’t work, wishing things were different won’t work, and that there are no other options. When you are at the end of yourself and your hands are empty like a beggar asking for bread.

Repentance is more than admitting wrongdoing, it is literally a turning from darkness to light. The faith that Jesus brings is the full truth and the real life. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom where all things are well. His people are not just newly reborn into that kingdom, but they will always be new. There is no greater change than belonging to Jesus. No matter who you are or how dark your life seems, he will rescue you even when you have nothing to offer.

-Andrew Field