Let Change start with Me

 Morning musing: August 20, 2018

It is easy to talk about and see all the wrongs going on in this world. Many make posts about it on Facebook and shake their heads amazed by the evil that people are doing in the world.

But how many take the time, or want to point out or talk about the wrongs that go on in their own heart? How many shake their heads and stand in awe over their own sins?

Perhaps some think too much about their own sins....their needs to be a just balance.

It is easy to see the things wrong in our neighbor, or family member or fellow Believer; but let us not overlook our own short comings, wrongs, etc. Let us feel as grieved over our own injustices & failures as we do the worlds. Let us seek to mend our ways, to overcome our self in the things we fall short in.

How many of us are easily irritated, frustrated, impatient, answer roughly, selfish, ....the seemingly small, sometimes unrecognized wrongs that are in our daily life...let us focus on weeding out these things from our own lives.

The world's wrongs should not be our focus. If everyone in the world spent more time examining and correcting their own wrongs the world would be a better place.

People do the same about the "Church World" also....talking about how messed up the Churches are, talking about the hypocrisy, etc. But have we really sought the Lord to know, "how messed up am I?" "where is the hypocrisy in my life" "open my eyes Lord to where I fail you."

The World, & the "Church World" changes one person at a time. We must purge our self before we expect to see a change in others.

Philippians 2:12-15
"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out YOUR OWN salvation with fear and trembling.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Do all things without murmurings and disputing:

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;"