Where Change Begins

We cannot change from the outside in

The heart is where true change begins

Though law may force the hand and such

The heart no scripted law can touch

…where edict of rules oft estrange

The heart to rudiments of change

For only love the heart can move

Yet, who can force a heart to love?

Love and belief; oh who can bend

The matrix of the heart, my friend?

Ah, there is One; a still small voice

Beckons; response is our choice

Yet, in this choice the crux of change

And all that follows it remains

For God is love; love does not force

The heart that yields in true remorse

Then, in the yielding change can start

For only Love can change the heart

© Janet Martin

One of the pastors interviewed yesterday in Ferguson Missouri reminded us that all the social programs in the world cannot change the heart where true change begins. Only Jesus can change the heart; the same Jesus that shed His blood for our sins. He died to set us free!