OK, you probably do know. If for some reason you have no opinion on this issue than stop by any restaurant in small America and ask that group of guys sitting around that big table. They will fill you in. Identifying problems is never a problem.
Actually finding solutions to the problems isn't hard either. Ask that same group of guys. They will tell you how it should be. Now there are reasons why some problems are hard to fix. Money, materials, politics. But sometimes the problem is motivation. No one has the drive to make it different. No one steps up and says, "I will fix it."
This is the way that we often treat God. We pray that God should fix a problem, and that is a start. But as we pray the prayer needs to change from God, You should fix this to God, please help me fix this. Its seems like a small change, but it's huge. Prayers change things starting with us.
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. - James 2:14-17
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