I know some may feel I am mincing words, but I am thinking out loud here.Isn’t a revolution something that is more likely to bring destruction and division not the inward change that is actually sought? Revolutions force change on a system or people, not actually bring them to a change. Revolutions are usually marked with violent changes to individuals or systems in an attempt to change thinking or behavior. Maybe real transformation comes from a gradual change in thought and behavior and not a change in behavior that is forced or demanded? A traumatic change that is forced is a revolution to that person’s thinking. But when a person changes their thoughts and behaviors through growth and development that is evolution. Doesn’t REAL change in character come from the growth in an area in your life, not the change that you are required to do.

Take this example. I can tell, require, my son to not make fun of his sister or he will be in grounded from an activity. He most likely will comply with my demands, as long as that which may be taken away is important to him and we are near. But it never fails, when we are not around trouble ensues. His sister will come to us complaining about what her brother said about her. My son hasn’t really changed at all, but only changed his behavior due to a demand; if he had a real heart change then it would not come up again. I could argue that my son has suffered a revolutionary change of thinking that he has been subjected to. When he adopts the change gradually over time and makes it a part of his core being, because he believes in it than that would be an evolutionary change.

Continued later . . .