Try something new, you might love it

For those of you who don’t know the story, there is a character named Sam-I-Am who spends all his time begging, pleading and relentlessly trying to get the yellow character with a tall black hat to try green eggs and ham.

In the story, no matter how many different ways Sam-I-Am asks, the answer is always, “I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-Am”.

And he refuses to try them.

He’s so set in his ways, he’s not willing to try something new.

The funny thing is, everything we like in life, at some point, was new to us and something we’d never tried or experienced before.

If we never tried something new, we’d never have learned how to drive a car, or play a musical instrument, or a sport, or how to cook or knit.

The Bible reminds us that God is in the business of doing new things.

We see this from the first book to the last.

Psalm 34:8 says “Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!” (NLT).

If we open our Bible and start reading, we will find God offers us a new heart, a new spirit and a new life.

At the end of Green Eggs and Ham, the tall yellow character with the black hat finally gives in and consents to trying them, just so Sam-I-Am will finally leave him alone.

After all the fuss, refusals, protests and objections, much to his surprise, he discovers that in trying something new he has found something new that he likes, very much.

Every tradition we treasure was once something new that had to be tried.

That’s true in our personal lives and families, as well as in our church.

Be open to trying something new because if you’re not, you might miss out on what the Lord wants to do for, and in, with and through you.

Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-Am for the reminder to be open to trying something new.

Try God’s word, you won’t be disappointed.

~ Contributed by Sandra Whyborn of the Deniliquin Salvation Army, on behalf of the Combined Churches of Deniliquin.