I am a Solution

Everyone has problems.  Some people have really big problems, and some people have little problems that they make into big problems.  The Word says that in this life we will have trouble. 

I had the amazing privilege of listening to Gianna Jessen last fall.  She is a survivor of a failed saline abortion attempt. The induced labor took too quickly for her birth mother, and Gianna was born alive.  The abortionist hadn't arrived yet, and the nurse hadn't the heart to suffocate the baby girl (as was the common fate of many saline abortion survivors). 

Inspite of her cerebral palsy and obvious parental rejection,  Gianna practically shouted, "I am NOT a victim!". 

Viktor Frankl (author of Man's Search for Meaning) is a holocaust survivor. 

"During World war II, Dr. Frankl was imprisoned at Auschwitz, where he was stripped of his identity as a medical doctor and forced to work as a common laborer. Worst was, his father, mother, brother and wife died in the concentration camps. All his notes which represented his life’s work were destroyed. Yet Frankl emerged from Auschwitz believing that, “everything can be taken from a man except one thing:

the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

My favorite attitude in people around me is those who are PROBLEM-SOLVERS. 

If you want to be great in God's kingdom, you've got to be a servant of all.

(why or why can't I ever get Charity Churchmouse's voice out of my head when I hear that verse???)

Great servants are problem-solvers. 

"Solve task problems quickly," says Pastor Leon Fontaine, "because people problems are more important."

I want this.  I want to be a problem-solver.  God is the solution.  God designed us to be a solution when He came to dwell within us;  not a problem, but problem-solvers

SOLUTION - Hillsong, Joel Houston

It is not a human right To stare not fight - While broken nations dream

Open up our eyes, so blind That we might find - The Mercy for the need

It is not too far a cry To much to try - To help the least of these

Politics will not decide If we should rise - And be your hands and feet

Higher than a circumstance - Your promise stands, Your love for all to see

Higher than protest line and dollar signs, Your love is all we need

Only You can mend the broken heart, And cause the blind to see

Erase complete the sinners past, And set the captives free

Only You can take the widows cry, And cause her heart to sing

Be a Father to the fatherless, Our Savior and our King