Everything Must Change (mostly me)

If we are going to be perfect in heaven, why didn't just create us perfect down here? Seriously... I know very well the whole explanation that God created us to love him and to be loved by Him, and that free will is the only way that we could actually choose to love God and not be robots and so on and so forth.

Then why is it going to be different in heaven? Why will we, who are decidedly imperfect, suddenly become perfect? Why didn't God just put us straight into heaven?

Now before you start on the three-page theological email or comment to fix my poor heretical thinking, let me say that I'm not all that concerned about the answer to my own questions. God did what He did. BUT (there's always a but) I am concerned about what these questions suggest.

I believe God's main plan for mankind happens on earth not in heaven.

So what, right? If I believe what I just wrote, then I no longer can excuse myself for not trying to change this world.

Brian McLaren has a new book called "Everything Must Change," and I believe it's going to shake some people up in a very good and needed way.

In it he breaks down the major crises that the world faces into 4 headings: the prosperity crisis, the equity crisis, the security crisis and the problem of religion. This is huge. The problems in our world are not going away easily.

But change is possible. I read the Bible and I see God using His people to change the world...most of the time enabled by a major miracle from Him. I want to see that today! I want to be a person that He uses to change the world. I'm not going to be content to wait for heaven. I'm not going to wait until I'm older, smarter, wiser, richer or __________ (you fill in the blank).

God, please use me today to begin changing the world. I'm not sure what that's going to mean yet, but I don't want to wait around until I do! I'm ready God. Go for it!