People Can Change

Once a criminal does not mean always a criminal. The book Inside The Criminal Mind states that just as a person may have chosen a life of crime, so he or she "can make choices in a new direction and learn to lead a responsible life."

Experience has shown that people with all kinds of backgrounds can change. What is required is a willingness to adjusts one's attitudes, motivations and thinking patterns so that these conform, not the shifting values of humans, but to the stable standards of our Creator. After all, who know us better than he does? Moreover, does not God have the right to decide for the human family what is good and bad? To that end, he inspired approximately 40 God-fearing humans to pen what we know as the Holy Bible-an amazing volume that could rightly be called mankind's manual for happy and purposeful living. - 2 Timothy 3:16, 17.

It may not be easy to make the changes needed to please God, for we have to resist the tug of war our sinful tendencies. In fact, one Bible writer described his inner conflict as a 'war'! (Romans 7:21-25) He won the struggle because he did not trust his own strength but in that of God, whose inspired Word is "alive and exerts power." -Hebrews 4:12.

Next time: The Power Of A Good "Diet"

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