Wanting to make a difference..

Have you ever felt so small in comparison to great problems of the world and wondered how your life or your actions could ever make a difference?
Well, that's how I feel tonight.
I've been reading Jerry Bridges for the last 2 months and have not gotten through unaffected. Currently I'm reading Respectable Sins and today I read the chapter on selfishness. I don't want to be the type of person who does something good only because of feeling guilty. I want to be the type of person who does good because I have Christ in me and I reflect Him. All that to say, I watched a movie tonight that made me think of the great need in Africa.. AIDs, orphans, women being taken advantage of because they are the weaker ones... of course these are not just in Africa but all over the world, but most of the time when I hear the words AIDs or orphans, I think of Africa. Well from that movie I felt stirred to do something, but I don't want that stirring to be only because of the need being in my face. I read an article recently that one of my friends recommended about empathy. The article pointed out that most people respond to a need when it is right in front of them, but tend to not respond to other needs because they don't take the time to notice them.
I know that God has set me apart and that I am already not of this world. I don't know why I keep trying to fit in like I am. There are needs out there and I want to do what I can to make a difference with the "vapor" of a life that I have. Not out of feeling guilty because I have more, but out of a heart of love, a heart of compassion, a heart of Christ.

Father may I live for You because You are my life. "There but for the grace of God, go I."