Now, hear this wisdom from the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" -  and realize "the children  of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light" -

"I find so many people struggling today, often working harder, simply because they cling to old ideas. They want things to be the way they were, and they resist change.  I know people who are losing their jobs or their houses, and they blame technology or the economy or their boss. Sadly, they fail to realize that they might be the problem.  OLD IDEAS ARE THEIR BIGGEST LIABILITY.  It is a liability simply because they fail to realize that while that idea or way of doing something was an asset yesterday   -  YESTERDAY IS GONE".

Read that passage again,  this time thinking of institutionalized,  denominational,  Christianity.  Think of how hard they resist change.  Think of how every service is exactly the same, week after week, year after year. 

                                 "But if The Lord make a new thing, and the earth open up her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertains to them, and they go down quick into the pit:  then shall you understand that these men have provoked The Lord " ( Num:16:30)

                                   "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and NEW THINGS DO I DECLARE; before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto The Lord a NEW song" (Isa:42:9&10)

                                    "Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth, shall ye know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness,  and rivers in the desert!  Remember ye not the former things,  neither consider the things of old" (Isa:43:15,18)

                                "Thou hast heard, see all this and will not ye declare it? I have shewed you new things from this time, even hidden things  and you did not know them" (Isa:48:6)

Oh my people,  be open, ready and willing to receive the new thing God is bringing to pass in our gener. We must repent of our former ways or perish  - we must shed all our traditions of men,  and all our doctrines of devils  - as garments not fit for the bride of Christ! We must cling to Christ,  not our traditions  - we must leave the Chrysalis  and soar with Him  - WE MUST CHANGE! Do not let Him say of you  - "This people's hearr is waxed gross and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at anytime they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should UNDERSTAND WITH THEIR HEART, and should be converted,  and i should heal them" (Mt:13:15).

May WE not be as our "Fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation,  a generation that set not their heaet aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God"  (Psa:78:8).

Instead, may Jesus speak this over you  - "But blessed are your eyes for they see; and your ears for they hear" (Mt:13:16)