It Don't Fit

Have you ever lost a bunch of weight and none of your clothes fit? Girl I wish I had that problem but I'm reverse of that. I seem to gain weight and that makes none of my clothes fit! Oh well, that's just the way it goes I guess. What's the old saying? Time marches on and it is marching across your face....maybe time is marching across my belly! heehee

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Go to the moment where you either lost the weight or the gained the weight and you pull that shirt or those pants out of your closet, slip it on and wa-la you can finally button them (or maybe they won't button at all)! No matter which is the case I know you totally get my point right about now.

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What about trying to make a lid that was mistakenly put in the dishwasher fit back on the plastic bowl that it came with. It seems that no matter how hard you try or how many different ways you lay that lid on that bowl...it just won't fit!

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What about your Christmas tree? Oh honey, we have an artificial tree and the day we bought it I was amazed at how well that tree was packed into that tiny box but once I took it out, set it up and the holidays were over...it won't go back in that box! I have sat on the branches, hugged the tree, sat and pushed each individual branch back in the upright position and still...nothing.

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My life is like that too. Once I became a Christian I don't seem to fit in the same areas that I once did. Conversations that used to get me going...not so much now. People that I thought were my friends and I loved them dearly...I rarely, if ever, talk to them now. Things that I thought were so important...are just things now. Life has changed! And I'm glad! But, there are times where I will run into someone who I was fairly close to or maybe I'll be in the midst of a conversation or situation that before was no big deal to me and as I engage into the situation or conversation I realize that I don't fit. No matter how I squirm or move around I just don't fit.

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"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins..." Luke 5:37a (NLT). How true, how true! We are new creatures in Christ! We aren't the same ole person. Things are different, our lives have been changed and those people, conversations and situations...they aren't going to fit! And, thank goodness! Yes, you are to be an example, be a witness, reach your hand out to people but at the same time you don't fit in with them either! "Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you." 1 John 2:15 (NLT).