You Can Make a Difference

You Can Make a Difference

Edmund Burke said,

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

We have seen this repeated over and over in history. Horrors that could have been prevented and evils that never should have happened rage on like wildfires because no one had the courage to stand up. The wonderful thing about this though, is the antithesis.

All that is required for good to prevail is for courageous men to stand up.

We have seen this through history as well. Lives saved, truth spread, and hearts changed as the result of one person courageous and competent enough to stand up.

Lila Rose was fifteen when she realized the truth about abortion.  She realized the horror of the American genocide that is happening right under our noses. She could have hung her head and shrugged her shoulders and said, “Well it sucks, but what can I do about it?” Instead she decided to act, to uncover the truth. A few years later, posing as a young pregnant girl, she walked into a Planned Parenthood facility with a hidden camera in her handbag. She caught the staff red handed, breaking rules and violating laws to sell abortions and admitting to horrible things like partial birth abortion. With these tapes she is, piece by piece, taking down Planned Parenthood and the evils of abortion.  She is the president of Live Action, distributing a newspaper and these videos. She goes under-cover, dying her hair to hide her identity while the next day she shows up in an interview and debates the people of Planned Parenthood on live television. Will she end abortion? Will she single handedly stop the killing of ever baby, ever? Probably not. But she is making a difference to hundreds of people, and she is in control of her own happiness. She is doing all she can because even if it won’t solve every problem, she is helping. Through that service she has found happiness; a life worth living.  

Truth is so bright it dispels the darkness and crushes the lies. Truth is the key! Find a truth and I guarantee it will change you, and you will want to share it. You may touch a nation or you may only touch one person. One person is all it takes.

Let me illustrate this for you- imagine a young boy walking along the beach, the sand freckled with starfish who had been beached at the tide and were now stranded on the shore, running out of life as the hot sun stole their moisture. The young boy was saddened at the scene and bent down, picked one up, and threw it to the sea, the life of the starfish saved.  The boy smiled at this power he had, to save their lives and do something about the sad situation. So he walked down the beach, picking up each little helpless starfish, and one by one, restoring them to the safety of their watery homes. For hours he labored, saving lives as he worked down the shore, until a man came up to him with a gruff and scorning look said, “Look at all these starfish. There must be millions of them! And there is only you, one person. You will never make a difference.” The boy thought for a moment and tenderly took a starfish into his hands. With confidence he tossed it to sea and looked back at the man, and smiling said, “I made a difference to that one.”

You have the power, the opportunity, and the courage to stand up. Do the hard thing; dig it up from its dark abyss of comfort and apathy and go out there and make a difference.