A Call to Action

This world is decayed by sin. This fact is made more and more apparent each day.

What is done is done, and it cannot be changed.  That is the unfortunate truth.  Yes, the past is accounted for.  But the future is not yet.  So now it's how we react in the face of tragedies that make a difference.

So we mourn, yes.  We pray, as we should.  Our "thoughts" being with someone is a nice gesture.  It's meaningful and shows you care, and really, it reflects favorably upon the state of your heart.  But it changes nothing.  Prayer, however, does.  People will say it doesn't, but I know that when we feel unable to do anything else, prayer makes for change.  Despite the tragedy in this world, we do have a good God working for us.  He hears these prayers, and He puts them into effect.

A prayer for peace and comfort can go along way.
A prayer for change can do the same.  However, we must then be willing to be apart of this change.

So, let us also start taking steps to make sure these tragedies happen less and less.

Tragedies compel us to feel.  But they should also compel us to act.  Both in comfort to those suffering, but in a preventative means as well.

This is not a post calling for our guns to be controlled, but for our love to be uninhibited.

So show love to everyone, even those who are hard to love or easy to ignore.  Because your love today may keep them from future depravity.

It's something we all can do.  It's something we constantly should seek to do.  We should be driven by the desire to spread love, because that is what truly affects a person's heart and makes for real change.

It was love that changed me, after all.  That continues to change me.  So I want to take that love and not rest until everyone truly experiences it in its full capacity.

And don't be mistaken here.  I'm definitely talking about the love of Jesus being the ultimate source.   It is for sure His love that changed me - I want to be unapologetically clear about that.

So let us act in this love.  Let us be moved towards change.  Let us constantly brainstorm and pray and work and act until we die to combat the evil of this world with true goodness.  It's not enough to just believe in good.  We must make for good.  This is the mission that should take us over and drive us.  And then, maybe we'll see these tragedies happening less and less.

I know the question of "how?" still lingers a bit.  I suppose that's different for everyone.  Pray on it diligently; I am certain God will reveal the answer to you.