What breaks your heart?
Pick a cause, any cause. Slap a catchy slogan on a broken world, accumulate enough Facebook "likes," and change will follow, right?
Wrong.
Maybe it's heretical of me to say this, but it struck me recently that there is one thing that our God who has all things does NOT have. Because He has given us the choice to obey, He has willingly deprived Himself of the worship of those who decide on disobedience. Not that He is incomplete without our worship or in some way lacking, but since the Fall, He has been robbed of His glory.
When you recognize His love and respond to it, something strange happens. You begin to change. The things you once thought were everything... They really aren't so great after all.
"Dear Sir: Regarding your article, "What's Wrong With the World?" I am. Yours truly, G.K. Chesterton"
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
//Gandhi
William Wilberforce, famed English abolitionist, had two aims: the abolition of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. He succeeded in the former, but I think that what he began to capture in the latter was a truth of far greater import: change starts with individual revival and reformation resulting in lovers consumed by desire for God and a will to see Him glorified throughout the world.
The buck starts here.
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