Changing The World 1 Apple At A Time

It’s been a few days since the passing of Steve Jobs, former CEO of Apple, and the world is still buzzing about his life and death.  If you knew about him much at all, you knew he had cancer and that his time was short.  Only a few weeks ago, he stepped down from his post as CEO stating that he could no longer fulfill the duties of his job.  That right there was a major key that his battle against cancer had turned south.  42 days later (1 day following the first major keynote presentation without him at the helm) his fight ended.

As everyone that has loved Apple products for the past couple decades is still talking about him, I thought I would join in as well.  He didn’t invent the computer or the phone or the music player but just like the BASF commercials, he made the products that we buy better.  He lead a team that revolutionize these common everyday items and changed our world.  That right there is significant.

I’m not going to sit here and quote Jobs although there are numerous lines I could throw in.  I’m not going to throw a pity party because he is gone although there are many people in real pain because of his passing.  But to me the biggest thing about his life was that he really knew what it meant to change the world.  I don’t know how many times I have heard that phrase “change the world” tossed around (especially in the Christian community).  We want to change our world for Christ.  We put it in our mission statements.  We say it at graduations.  We preach it from our stages.

How many times have you said that?  I know I have.  But I don’t know that I ever really thought about the WORLD when I say it.  We like to throw the phrase around but so often only have a small picture meaning of it.  We aren’t dreaming big or we aren’t really believing that it is possible.  Whether Steve Jobs set out to change the world, I don’t know.  But the fact is that he was definitely not afraid to dream huge and in the process revolutionize the world.

I pray that I will have dreams bigger that what I can accomplish on my own.  I pray that we as Christians will have more than a small picture vision for what God is capable of doing through us and dream big.  Like CEO of Apple big.