First, change must start with me...

How? Because every time I think about change, I think about the world. Then God says, my beloved, if you start seeing the change in you, so will the world.

"Here I Am"

Here I am, send me!

My, my, how many times have God heard that phrase, from the mouth of his children. I know that I have announced my claim to those precious words frequently. However, it goes more like this: Here I am Lord, send me, the next day: Okay Lord, Here I am send me and the next day: I am really ready now Lord, Here I am or is it Here I am Lord, send me. God is very loving, peaceful and graceful, because I am still on this planet witnessing to his Holy Name. I know that his seat has very deep marks each time he hears those words coming from my mouth, that he fills my spirit with his glory, just to shut me up.

However, continuing on to other truths, at some point in our life, we do reach Isaiah coined expression of “Here I am”. To get to that destination, we have to travel an unknown path, to “Here I am” then God puts us on a straight and narrow path to the Kingdom of God. Yes, we will wonder off, but that is in our nature and we will recognize signs that will informed us, we traveled this road before. It’s the same path that has gotten us to the “Here I am” versus the road to the Kingdom of God. Amazingly, we tend to want to stay on that back road, because we feel safe and we recognized previous engagements in our lives. Although, we know we need to move on, this road can lead us into dark remotes areas of our lives and we will never see what is on the other side. Therefore, we send out a long distance cry, “Here I am Lord, send me” and just as quickly as we were diverted off course, we have found ourselves back on track, towards the Kingdom of God.

I know that our repetitions in prayer may seem as a hindrance to God, that is a very false statement and if we believe that God is to busy for us, we are denying his unconditional love and grace inside our hearts. I speak from experience, I am writing this post, announcing those very words: Here I am Lord, send me. 

The Cup

 I listen to President Obama's speech last night on the War in Syria and I notice this fine print of communication. While everyone is advocating the communication we should instill into our congressional leaders, our government had successfully use an old technique from ancient times called "Art of Persuasion. The truth is, our government wants war, regardless if it's limited (another persuasive argument). Just like Pontius Pilate cleaned his hand of Jesus Christ blood, our government are cleaning their hands of this "strife" and allowing the liability to lie on the people of this nation. Regardless, of our stance in this Syrian conflict, I really don't know which choice is right or wrong. I only hope that the will of God, is the decision that we make. Sometimes in life we can make a difference and there are times, we have to allow the difference to be the choice of our lives. How do we begin to implement that process? I don't know, my only response is through prayer.