In answer to a newspaper’s question, “What is Wrong With the World?”  G. K. Chesterton wrote: 

  “In one sense, and that the eternal sense, the thing is plain. The answer to the question, “What is Wrong?” is, or should be, “I am wrong.” Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby.”

I am.

I am what’s wrong with the world. 

Jesus said, “How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye” (Matthew 7:4-5). 

This is a hard truth. This hurts. Truth usually does.

I can easily make a list of 100 specks I see in other peoples’ eyes.

But wait? Could it possibly be that in the meantime others are compiling a list of the 100 specks they see in my own eye?

“Hey! Put your pen down!”

Before I start taking inventory of everyone else’s specs, Jesus says it would be wiser to start logging my own specks first (pun intended). Have some work to do. 

What’s wrong with the world? So far, me. 

Transformation of my world first starts with transforming of self.

But take courage.

You have the power to be the change you want to see in the world.

In the meantime, I’ll start with me.