Be the Change

This morning I was reading a sermon by Ian Lawton on SBNR,org called "Fix It Thinking" and it got me thinking. So many times we look outward for others to fix what we think needs to be fixed. The government, doctors, or if only "they" would make a pill for that. Who are "they"?

They are the scapegoats of our own inactivity. They are the ones we blame when things don't go like we want or how we think they should. In religious circles they can even be God or the devil. This kind of thinking is always outer directed. This kind of thinking changes nothing.

This makes me think of what Gandhi said, "be the change you want to see".

We can't just point fingers of blame or dodge our responsibility. The very word "responsibility" denotes that we have the "ability to respond" and I believe we (you and I) were born and placed here for just such a time as this.

Our journey of life has been a school to prepare us to live our lives in the full awareness of our ability.This ability is to respond with the generous resources of God and the universe to meet and minister to our world in which we live.We live this life on a moment by moment basis.

My Grace is sufficient for you is how God responded to Paul's Fix it it plea. (2Cor. 12:9) God wasn't telling Paul you are on you own bud, but rather you already have been given all that is necessary to face every challenge life can throw at you.

Scripture teaches that God supplies our needs according to God riches or resources. God has invested in us all the gifts and talents necessary to impact our world. It is not accidental that you were born you or when and where you are.

So lets rise up in this generation and allow Christ to live through us and be the change this world needs.