I want to change the world, but I’ve got all these excuses

I have a dream of changing the world, but there are so many reasons why I can’t — or won’t.

You see, I have a past, littered with selfishness and broken relationships. I have inadequacies, personal chinks in my armor that I know leave me vulnerable. I have doubts and uncertainties about my abilities. “Pick someone else,” I pray.

Indeed, if you are like me, we are all beset by sins and failures, fears and temptations. We keep hoping to get a grip on this thing, but it slips out of our grasp.



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Being a Red Letter Believer means that you take on the words of Christ and you begin to not just believe in them, but you begin to live them out. When we begin to embrace them and flesh them out, we will see the world around you change. Those precious Words can redeem our schools, our workplaces, our governments and our planet.

Things are pretty bleak out there. Wars. Weather. Terrorism. Anger. Despair. It’s all around us and there is urgency for God’s elect to redeem the culture – to change the world.

So what’s my excuse?
Care to comment?

This week at Faith Barista, Bonnie Gray is talking about whitespace – and what you learn when you find yourself in life’s whitespace.  My whitespace is to start filling my excuse time with God time! To see more posts, please visit Faith Barista.

Laura, over at Beholding Glory, is having a “Brag on God Friday” celebration. I”m bragging that God can use fools like me!   Read the other entries here