You Could Change The World

 

The book “The Kid Who Changed The World” by Andy Andrews is based on the Butterfly Effect. The idea is that every time something happens, something else happens. When a butterfly flaps its wings, it moves tiny pieces of air, which then moves other tiny pieces of air. Essentially, every little thing you do has some type of impact on the world around you. What you did yesterday, today, and what you will do tomorrow matters. Norman Borlaug is the kid who changed the world, because he decided as a child, growing up on a farm, that all the corn they had could be used to feed the hungry people of the world. Norman learned all he could about plants throughout his school years. Then he was hired by a man named Henry Wallace to develop special seeds which would grow into super plants to help feed the hungry. He did, and two billion people were fed! But Henry Wallace was actually the kid who changed the world, because as a child, he learned all he could about plants from a man named George. Henry learned so much he became the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, George was actually the kid who changed the world, because while at Iowa State on the weekends, George would take his professor’s son, Henry Wallace, around campus teaching him all about plants. But really, Susan Carver was the one who profoundly changed the world, because she and her husband Moses rescued a child who they eventually adopted. His name was George Washington Carver. No matter how old or young we are, we impact the world around us. May our impact be like Lois, Eunice, and Timothy! (2 Timothy 1:3-7).

[Isaiah 59:1-2] From the time of the first sin (Genesis 3) when Adam and Eve took of the forbidden fruit, people have separated themselves from God by transgressing His Law. God is Holy (1 Peter 1:16), that is, He is separate from sin, so when I defile myself by committing sin, I create a barrier between God and myself. Sin severs my relationship with God. Each person who has the ability to understand right from wrong at some point chooses to sin, thus creating this barrier (Romans 3:23; 7:7-12). The amazing thing about God’s love for us is that even though we are responsible for severing the oneness we once had with Him, He is the one who acted first to restore the relationship (John 3:16; 1 John 4:19). Atonement is when God takes actions to restore His relationship with us. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their minds and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I shall be merciful to their righteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more” (Hebrews 8:10-12). The actions that God took for atonement involved the sending of His Son, Jesus the Christ, who knew no sin, to shed His blood for us on the cross, paying our debt for sin (Romans 5:6-11; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Revelation 5:10). Upon those acts of atonement, the new covenant has been established. Aren’t you thankful that God took the necessary steps to make it possible for you to be at one with Him again? That He is willing to be merciful toward your unrighteousness and no longer remember your iniquities? Are you willing to respond to God’s atoning through Jesus by obeying the Gospel? They asked Peter, “…what shall we do?” Peter replied, “Repent, …be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:37-38). Have you clothed yourself with Christ? (Galatians 3:27). With His laws in your heart and on your mind, your life could change the world.