Change the World

Helen Keller was asked one time what would be worse than being born blind. She quickly replied, “To have sight and no vision.” Our world is full of people who see only the immediate. These are people who go for the convenient. They never look beyond themselves. They never imagine what they could be. They never dream. We have them in all walks of life: school teachers, construction workers, business women, truck drivers, salesmen. If you don’t have a dream you’re never going to become what you could become. Robert Kennedy said, “Some people look at things as they are and say, why? Some people look at things as they could be and say, why not?” As followers of Jesus we have looked beyond the stone and are able to say, “Why not?”

Followers of Jesus live out their God-dreams. Followers of the resurrected Savior dream dreams that are bigger than themselves. Jesus says, “If you keep your life you will lose it, and if you lose your life you will keep it” (Luke 9:24).

Light has invaded darkness. Hope has overcome despair. Death has lost its sting. Dare to dream. Dream of a world where cancer, heart disease, and AIDS do not exist. Dare to dream. Dream of a world where soup kitchens and homeless shelters do not exist. Dare to dream. Dream of a world where rehab centers and divorce courts are all empty. Dare to dream. Dream of a world where we are free from racism, free from lonliness, free from guilt, free from bondage to anything or anybody. Go and live your dream!