Waiting on the World to Change?

I've never really liked the concept of that John Mayer song. If we are truly going around this life just waiting for the world to change, we will be utterly disappointed...and I'll venture to say that we will waste our lives. I don't want to waste my life. The Lord has called me (and us) to something bigger and higher than just blending in with society and hoping that its practices will change.

At this point in my life, I am waiting to change the world. And I know that the Lord can do that through me. I'd always kind of closed off my thoughts to the fact that I could indeed impact the whole world...but if I truly believe that nothing is impossible for God, I've got to believe that His power through me is more than sufficient for this weighty task. To me, changing the world comes in the form of taking the Light to every corner of the earth...the places that think they are already illuminated enough, as well as the places who have been blinded by the darkness so long that they wouldn't recognize light if it was right in front of them.

As believers, we have all been called to turn the world upside-down like the early church did in Acts 17:6. The things of this world are absolutely worthless. Yes, I said worthless. Nothing else matters except for knowing our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Paul talked about this so many times in his letters (Colossians 3:2-4; Philippians 3:7-8; Galatians 6:14; Romans 8:18-24). He got it. I am striving to get it. But I do know that this world has nothing to offer me...I have everything to offer the world. Well, not me...God can use me as a vessel to proclaim His message to the dark and fallen world around me (2 Corinthians 4:7).