That's right. America needs to change, AND SO DO I.
I need to rethink the values I have. I need to reevaluate my priorities. I need to consider the complaints I have. I need to look beyond my comfort zones and contemplate the comfort of others. I need to appreciate the freedom I have and be grateful for the dedication of those who make my freedom possible. I need to pray more and protest less. I need to weep more for those who have less and give more to those in need. I need to change. Do you?
In America's election season, the focus is on the economy--ours. The issues put before us by candidates and media are insurance, energy, terrorism, Iraq, Iran, and Aghanistan. America wants more and better. We want better education, better healthcare, more freedom, more rights, more leisure, more pleasure, more possessions.
I watched a video this week that speaks well to how America needs to change.
After watching this video I am more committed than ever to decrease so Jesus might increase within me. Jesus is all we need. In Jesus is our only hope. In Jesus is grace to cover all our sin. In Jesus is redemption, purpose and eternal life. I need to change. Change comes with challenges, and challenges need courage. And courage takes commitment. And commitment takes sacrifice. For these I pray.
Another powerful message I read was at Fire and Hammer. He exhumed a chunk of historical record and gave voice to our nation's first president, George Washington. Worth the read.
Change. "Change we can believe in." Yes, but the only change we can believe in is through the sanctifying blood of Jesus Christ--not a politician's flamboyant, rehearsed, and memorized rhetoric. It doesn't come through wordy commitments and empty political slogans. Change for change's sake has no value. Some things need to stay the same. Values, righteousness, godliness and faith cannot be compromised in the process. Ever. selahV
[copyrighted, SelahV Today, 2008]
