What Are You Trying to Change?

"Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself." ~Leo Tolstoy~

I have to come to see the truth of this. I see it in myself. If I could, I would spend hours upon hours talking and thinking about what is wrong with the government, my friends and family, the church, and everything else. And in the process completely ignore the very things God has called me to think on: His Great Commandments and His Great Commission.

We are being trained by the media to be victims. The instruction from these talking heads is calling us to blame others and to ignore our responsibilities and that is exactly what we are doing.

What would our nation be like if God’s people spent their time praying for God to be at work in their lives and through their lives and sought to share and live out the Gospel with those all around them? The old saying is true and good. What happens in the White House is not nearly as important as what happens in the Church House.

And at the Church House, it does no good to come and complain about what everybody else isn’t doing and try and be a victim there. Find friends you can do life with. Get plugged in where you are needed and not where you necessarily want. Be of service to Christ and others and not yourself.

It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong, but God has called us to work in His name to make things right (2 Corinthians 5:17-21). Let’s stop wasting time on our agenda and get busy fulfilling God’s. His purpose is to make us Holy and to bring His Hope to the world through us.