Scripture: Luke 12:50 (from the Message)
Jesus said, “I’ve come to change everything, turn everything rightside up – how I long for it to be finished!”
Thought for the Day: One of the great voices of 20th century Christianity was Harry Emerson Fosdick. From the pulpit at Riverside Church in New York City, he challenged his local congregation. From his regular preaching on the radio show, the Protestant Hour, he engaged the entire country. One of the best known lines from one of his sermons was simply: “Christians are not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.” Let us never forget that we are to be agents of change in this world – but change that has a purpose, a holy and healing purpose.
Prayer: As you have brought change for the better into my life, merciful God, encourage me to be an source of change wherever I might go. Amen.


