Change Starts With Me

I've been listening to my girl Joyce Meyer, and she has been preaching to me! This week she is airing some throwbacks, and the messages are on change.

Lately, my heart's cry has been for change. In every area of my life - literally - I see the need for change. My job, ministry, personal life... All of it is in need of a change.

However, in Joyce's messages, she made some good points. Often we cry out for change, but do nothing. Then we come back around the bend again, and complain about how things still need to change.

Change begins with us. When we cry out for change, that is an indicator for us to change something. Change is not just going to drop out of the sky simply because we recognized the need for it.

We have to change our thoughts, our behavior, our friends, whatever it may be, and it is our action that will spur the change that we seek. Even if all we can do is fast and pray about it, that is still a change in our behavior. Once we make the change in ourselves, we get in the position for God to work out the completion of that change. Joyce said it well: "When you do what you can, God will do what you cannot."

I have a lot of change that I'm seeking. Thus, I have a lot of things I need to get in motion. If I don't move, I really don't want the change. If I don't move, I really don't have a right to complain about how things are not the way I would like them to be. Change starts with me.

Verse of the Day: He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Ecclesiastes 11:4