Hey Jonathan, all the time we talk about making a difference. It got me thinking, what does that really mean. To MAKE A DIFFERENCE? So I looked up the word difference on google and I got many definitions that kind of boggled my mind. What I normally use the word difference to define is not what I came across. The first two definitions listed were these: 1. the quality of being unlike or dissimilar and 2. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm.
So, what I gathered from these two definitions is in order to MAKE a difference. We have to BE THE DIFFERENCE first. We must be unlike everything else. We must deviate from the nom. We cannot make a difference unless we are the difference. So making a difference isn't something we DO it is something we ARE. It is a quality to we possess. We are the DIFFERENCE.
Romans 12:2 says:
2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is, his good, pleasing and perfect will.
We must first be transformed, before we can see transformation take place around us. Therefore, let us seek to become the difference and by doing so the difference we are will be transferred into those around us.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Making a difference.
1 comments:
That is very true. I feel like this is true in leadership. If I want people to interact with kids before service, I have to make sure I stop running around and interact with kids before service. I can tell people to do stuff until I am blue in the face but until I actually model it a lot of time change doesn't happen. That's what this blog reminded me of, I know that wasn't your main point but it just got me thinking. "Being the difference" is so much harder than just telling people to be different.
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