True Change

"If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the alien, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your forefathers for ever and ever." (Jeremiah 7:5-7)

It’s easy to find things in the world that need to be changed. Violence. The gap between rich and poor. Immigration conflict. Sexual abuse. It’s easy to discuss the problems of the world and divide up into political camps confident you have the solution.

It’s much easier to look at the “big picture” than deal with the small problems closer to home. Leo Tolstoy once said --

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Spiritual conversion – the only change that can really make a difference is much more personal than political. It starts not when we figure out how the world needs to change, but when we start changing to be more like Christ.