The recent congressional injunction for a move toward a college football playoff is met with varying public opinion. Many consider that the nation’s greatest minds should be more concerned and focused on public policy rather than playoff participation. Others, favoring the crowning of a “true” national champion via a playoff system, encourage Congress’ push for a change.
Whether you are for or against the topic of a college football playoff, or more importantly the involvement of our nation’s senators and representatives in the realm of collegiate athletics, is irrelevant to my point today. My point is that these individuals involved aren’t satisfied with the status quo but rather are seeking an alternative option—hoping to find a change for the better.
As the closing of another year is quickly approaching and we seek to usher in a new decade, these last few moments of 2009 provide a time for reflection and inflection, reminiscing on the highs and lows of the year publically, professionally, and personally. More notably they force us to realize our mortality as humans, and offer us areas in which we aspire to change for the better.
Traditionally, I’m not one to develop New Year’s resolutions. I’m not opposed to them, I just don’t usually compose them—but this year I may. Whether it is exercising regularly, eating healthier, creating a “bucket list,” developing better studying habits, reading the Bible, ridding oneself of destructive habits, communicating with friends and relatives regularly, etc., these examples all acknowledge a positive need for change. Now I’m not one to promote change for the sake of change. But I am one to invoke that we should never become complacent or content with low-level living: vocationally, spiritually, physically, relationally, educationally, etc.
Change is all around us. Ecclesiastes tells us that for every season in nature, there is a change. From a caterpillar maturing into a beautiful butterfly to a seed aging to a sturdy oak tree, change is present in both of these examples as well as multiple others in nature. Thus I am suggesting that when change results in a greater Christlike conformity, then change is worth pursuing.