Effecting Change

We can't fix people.

I know, it's disappointing isn't it?  But if you think about it, do you want people to fix you?  There, a little perspective to get us on the right foot.  Nope, we can't fix people.

Here's are a few challenges we face when we try:

• We are often blinded to our own stuff, and someone telling us what's wrong tends to raise our defenses.
• Throwing knowledge at a problem just adds knowledge.  Without applied action, it doesn't bring change.
• We need revelation to see what we can't see on our own in order to be inspired to apply knowledge to change.

Knowledge without revelation is dangerous and

generally doesn't get the desired result.

In the Biblical account of Moses, he gains knowledge of his personal heritage and the plight of his people who were enslaved. While Moses attempts to do something with this knowledge, he lacks revelation of what to do and how to do it.  In the process, he murders an Egyptian and harms his reputation within his own community.

So what to do?  If we become aware (gain knowledge) of a needed change in a person or situation, revelation is needed. 

This is where God comes in - ask God for revelation and His wisdom to apply the knowledge.  Let God speak into it.  God had a plan for how Moses could effect change, he just needed to hear it first.  And once he had it....well, all the power of God backed him up and it was no longer up to Moses own limited strength and capacity.

 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,

 the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of

wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him....

Ephesians 1:16-17