“All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.” – Timothy Keller

If you live in the United States, as I do, you are buried under political discourse and, almost always, it laments the condition of our world and claims one political party or the other can make it better.

As Christians, though, we realize only God can make lasting changes, and he has designated Jesus as the ruler of this world. The problems around us are beyond the ability of mere humans to fix – though we shouldn’t give up trying!

But let’s envision something much bigger than government or politics: A people of God so committed to him that they stand out as being different from the rest of the world. Those who understand both the promises of eternity and the joys and sorrows of living in the here and now, and, somehow, they live fully into that tension.

Don’t you sometimes hunger to have a passion for God that changes everything? A burning deep inside you that has to praise him and overflows with love for others? If everyone who claimed Christ as Savior had that kind of passion for him, our world would be changed – not through politics or revolution, but through Jesus’s people showing him and his love to the everyone around us.

When the hearts of Jesus’s followers are right, the real needs of this world will be met, and God will be glorified. I’m praying for revival within the hearts of the followers of Jesus – starting with me. Are you in?

I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. – Isaiah 57:15b