Quiet Revolutions.

We know the cost that comes in revolutions: upheaval, blood, death, pain, suffering. Great injustices lead to a desire to be the reckoner, to fix things, to put our beloved homes in leadership that will love and guide. As the dust settles, and the corpses that litter both sides of the street began to decompose, we truly begin to understand how serious and how costly a revolution truly is. The American and French Revolutions cost the blood of thousands of men, who fought and died for the cause of nationalism. The Communist Revolutions in Russia, China, and Cuba took place over the cause of ideological differences. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, which implemented Sharia Law into Iran's political system, took place over religious causes. Our world has been, is currently, and will be marked by revolutions. As we continue to draw invisible lines on physical lands, and people continue to succumb to the darkness of their hearts and to their sense of entitlements, revolutions will continue.
One of the reason that Jews in Jesus' day and today do not believe that He was the promised Messiah is because His revolution did not occur in the same way as those above. He was to be the victorious Warrior-King in the lineage of David. When David was king of Israel, He was a warrior. He rode a stallion and would slay the enemies of Israel as if they were chaff, and would return home victorious. Israel's prominence and stature in those days had long been idolized by the Jews of subsequent generations, and they desired for it be a reality again. The expectation around Christ was great because they were ready for Him to expel the Jews and to reestablish the Davidic Kingdom once more.
But Christ was not a people pleaser.
Jesus came to do the will of His Father, which was to fulfill the Law, die sinless, and resurrect from the dead. This was all done that the Father would be worshiped and glorified. Jesus' revolution did not occur on the streets of Rome nor in the temple of Jerusalem; it occurred where the cause of revolutions being: the dark human heart. Jesus' revolution was not one that took blood; it gave blood. It was not one that took lives for a cause; it is one that gives its own life for the cause.
As Christians, or "little Christs", this same idea is to mark our lives. The Christian life consists of Quiet Revolutions, little, tiny upheavals in our souls that wrought quiet revolutions in our life and in the world around us. The Christian revolution operates in tiny pockets that spread and spread and spread. That is how real change occurs. We have an obsession with desiring big, sweeping changes, because we want a revolution to happen like the rest of the world. We think if we can legislate our values, things will change. But they won't. We'd simply be addressing the symptoms and not the issues. If we outlaw abortion, it will still continue. Instead, we need to love on mothers contemplating the act; we need to be willing to adopt their babies, but most importantly, we need to show them the love of Christ and how He values them and the little life growing inside of them. This is a quiet revolution. This is what the Christian life is about.