Determine to make a difference!
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does” (James 1:22-25).
Winston Churchill exemplified integrity and respect in the face of opposition.
During his last year in office, he attended an official ceremony.
Several rows behind him two gentlemen began whispering.
“That’s Winston Churchill.”
“They say he is getting senile.”
“They say he should step aside and leave the running of the nation to more dynamic and capable men.”
When the ceremony was over-
Churchill turned to the men and said, “Gentlemen, they also say he is deaf!”
The human race is divided into two classes:
– those who go ahead and do something,
– and those who sit still and inquire, ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?
How many times have we left a job, a project, a church, an important relationship because we just didn’t find it good enough?
Some of us make a lifestyle of it!
But God wants us to be the kind of remarkable people who don’t criticize, complain and go out looking for something better all the time.
He wants us to be a people-
– who determine to make a difference in the lives of the people and situations He allows us to face!
Your job is boring and you need a change?
Ask the Lord how you might grow in your giftings there.
Ask Him to help you come up with a creative solution and maybe even improve your workplace altogether!
You want to leave your church because it doesn’t have an exciting children’s ministry?
Perhaps the Lord is calling you to help start one up!
Let’s be doers!
Let’s be people of vision!
There’s much too much to be done for the Lord to be sitting around criticizing.
Let’s determine to stop being complainers and go forth and do great things for Him!