So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:The old has gone, the new is here! (2 Corinthians 5:16-17)

In yesterday’s DWOD, we discovered how an earthquake 19 miles (30 km) beneath the ocean floor triggered a tsunami that resulted in the loss of nearly 250,000 lives on Dec. 26, 2004.

When we dig a bit deeper, we find that the earthquake itself was triggered by a shift in the tectonic plates of the earth’s crust. In this particular instance, it was the Indian and Burma plates that shifted, leading to the earthquake.

Hard to believe, but all it took was a small shift deep down to have such a great impact. Geologists did not know that the shift had happened until the earthquake hit.

What does a shift have to do with your destiny, you ask?

Everything.

Consider this scenario. A boy and a girl have been going to the same school, the same church, the same games and dances since childhood. They know each other’s names, parents, siblings, likes and dislikes…in short, they know all the significant details of each other’s lives. They are good friends.

At one particular point in time, they begin to look at each other with slightly different eyes. It may have happened, just like that, one day. Or it may have been building up over a few days, weeks or months.

Now they see each other not just as friends for life, but as husband and wife. A period of courtship begins, wedding bells follow and a lifelong relationship of marriage begins.

What got the ball rolling toward holy matrimony? It was a shift in the way they saw each other. Once the shift happened within both of them, everything changed!

Think about how you became a follower of Jesus.

No matter whether you were raised in church or not, if you simply viewed Him as just a good man, a good teacher, a miracle worker, reformer or whatever else, nothing changes.

And then one day, you see Him for who He really is—the Saviour of the World! No matter where it happened—at a crusade, a church service, a youth camp, a café, your home—once that shift took place within you, then nothing could hold you back from receiving Him as your Lord and Saviour.

Now that the Holy Spirit has engineered this shift, everything changes. You are born again, you become a new creation and the adventure of Christian living begins!

Even as you continue going down the Christian journey, more shifts follow.

One of the shifts that happened in my Christian walk was the day I heard Pastor Steve Long point out that if Jesus, as a human being like me, lived a supernatural life through the power of the Holy Spirit, so could I!

Not only did he teach this at a pastors’ gathering, he then went on to demonstrate it. When I saw a woman with excruciating back pain leave that meeting pain-free, my life had changed forever.

Of course, I did not know that it had…but the shift had happened within me. There was no going back. (You can read more about it here.)

How about you, DWOD friend? Can you think of similar shifts that have changed everything for you?

Praise God! Would you please share them with the rest of your DWOD family? Thanks in advance.