Ozzy Osbourne did a song with his daughter Kelly Osbourne called ‘Changes’, it was originally done by Ozzy’s first (and best) band Black Sabbath. The cover was shoddy. The original was ace.

I don’t know the lyrics apart from the chorus, and to be honest I’m not too interested in them - if anything it sounds kinda like a teenager going through puberty (which would explain why so many teens listen to Sabbath and Metallica…).

But this aside…

You know when you change, but don’t know how you’re changing? Like, I know I’ve changed since I’ve been in Brazil - and I’ve changed in different ways. But what I don’t know, is exactly which way I’ve been changed - what IS different?

When my mind/mentality changes, then my view and outlook changes, which means the very way I look at the question and evidence changes. It’s just that when this happens - it’s kinda disorientating. Imagine when you’re going through puberty, but with identity - an Identical Puberty. When you’re going through puberty you’re voice makes mistakes as it grows, you fall over a lot more because your feet are bigger, you hit your head more because you’ve grown more… I’m guessing it’s the same with identity. When we go through periods of growth with identity things change, and because of these changes we make mistakes and become confused because, well - I have a new identity which is different to yesterday’s.

(As a sidenote: I really hope this isn’t just me, and I’m not saying this as a ‘actually I know this isn’t just me but I want to make it sound like I’m involving people’)

I’m thankful to God that He’s never changing. Like, He’s already Perfect. He’s never going to have an ‘off’ day because he’s trying to get to grips with who He is. I can rest in this.

There’s an analogy in the Bible about a man who looks in the mirror and forgets what he looks like straight away. This is true if our identity isn’t in God - because our identity is constantly changing, how do we honestly know who we are? With our mirror rooted in the word, we realise that we are actually in the image of God (the mirror image of God, a 2D version of a 3D object - this idea is actually very profound when expounded in greater detail, especially when things like physics gets involved).

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13

Thanks God

Only for the King

Jx

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