What is heard about you?

How to find the inner strength to abandon the customs and habits that have damaged or dominated us for a long time? Is there any hope for someone living a messy life who wishes to straighten out their path?

A saying that is repeated a lot in Cuba and in some Latin American countries tries to teach that no: "A tree that is born crooked, its trunk never straightens." It is repeated so much that it tends to be accepted as an absolute and hopeless truth. Other times people insist that: I am like that. Or worse still: God made me like this. In this way they insist that everyone, including themselves, must accept themselves as they are because the possibility of genuine change is almost nonexistent.

While it is true that giving up habits and customs of life is a difficult and sometimes painful process, there is no doubt that it is possible. No one, absolutely no one, should think that there is no possibility of improving behavior and abandoning habits that have diverted life from the right path. What is certain is that self-help rarely achieves it and that there are many outside forces and influences that conspire to prevent people from taking the right path. However, the Bible teaches that such a transformation is possible and can be so radical and Definitively, the experience is called “being born again”. Those words were used for the first time by the Lord Jesus when He explained to a man named Nicodemus how the Spirit of God could work in people so that internally they would find the strength to change their lives and do the will of God.

Millions of people in this world, by repenting of their sins and accepting Christ, have started a process that leads them to live a different life. Many of them have impressive stories that they would be happy to tell if you went up and asked them.

Often, if someone tries to change their life, they are criticized or criticized. Non-believers love to say:

—Look at that, he did everything in the world and now he goes to church.

It is interesting that sometimes the very ones who reproached such people for their previous behavior are the ones who most doubt the reality of their conversion. The truth is that when the new converts begin to experience how the change occurs, they feel that now their lives have meaning and they are very happy with their new behavior. Few experiences in life are as beautiful as beginning to live the Christian life.

Never let the passage of time make you forget — or stop appreciating — all that Christ has already done in you.

God bless you!