The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. How it is different depends on us. Change hasn’t been or will ever be easy. . It is not the strongest of the species that survive or the most intelligent (thank goodness), but the one most responsive to change. Often people want to change everything around them, simply to realize that most of the time not much is achieved. Generation after generation there has been, and probably will always be a movement of youth that strives for change. We all want it, and that’s part of the solution as well as the problem
How hard would it be to write a list of things you want to see changed at school, at work, at home, on the road, in church, with your friends, with circumstances, with finances, grades, and even ourselves? Often we say things like “if this only cost less, the food here is terrible, if I only had better grades, I wish I had my license, I wish I wasn’t sick all the time, I hate being grounded, I wish my parents said they are proud of me, if only I knew someone who could relate to me, we could do more events if there were more teens at church.” It is never hard to write a list of the things we want changed. Often that’s the problem. We can have the tendency to look for faults as if the one who finds the most gets a prize.
Don’t get me wrong, there are some thing’s that absolutely need to change, but much of the time those thing are hard to see because we are distracted by the way we see the world. With out exception, it is not possible to change the circumstances around us or the people around us without first changing ourselves. That is why change is so hard. We read stories about Gideon, Moses, David, Ruth, Hannah, Esther, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and we get motivated. We turn to the stories of Jesus and we are blown away and inspired to do great things. We even watch movies like Gladiator, Blind Side, Matrix, Glory, Rocky, 300, and countless others simply to leave feeling as if we could conquer the world. All of us want a great ending, but great endings only happen to great stories, meaning don’t live to die but die to live.
Try writing a list of all the things you are grateful for (in every area of your life) and read it every night, pray through it daily, as well as continue to make that list bigger and better. If you can’t start there, that’s where you will finish. It may not be immediate but after doing this for a bit you will start to see EVERYTHING around you “change.” Then and only then the injustices of the world with be clear, and we will hear the cries of the people. More importantly we will be able to change the injustices as well as comfort the cries. Light will Reign and we will be the change this worlds needs to see.
Aaron Mullins
