say what?

I was reading in Acts recently and was struck by a verse I've read a gazillion times.
In Acts chapter one, Jesus is talking with the disciples post-resurrection and telling them about the eminent arrival of the Holy Spirit.
Then out pops the question that we see asked multiple times throughout the 4 gospels:
"Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?"
I thought about the question and the mindset from whence it was birthed...those guys, the disciples, the people following Jesus around, were still waiting for him to don the political/military mantel of conquering hero and overthrow the Roman government. In spite of all they had witnessed Jesus do and say, they were still caught up in the circumstance surrounding their lives in first century Palestine...wishing Jesus would wave His magic wand and make it all go away.
This line of thinking provoked this thought in me:

Not much has changed in nearly 20 centuries since that conversation recorded in the first chapter of Acts occurred. We still have questions and concerns that have to do with everything that's going around us. We want to know when the change is going to come...when is God going to address our social ills, conquer injustice, end poverty, fix the economy, etc...?
And many today assert that we can "be the change"...
However, and I do not intend for this to be, in any way, a political commentary, perhaps the change that we desire to see occur externally, must initiate internally.
Maybe, the question we should be asking is;
"Lord, what do you want to change in me?"
Instead of running around pointing fingers and blaming God for the circumstance we find ourselves in and crying out to Him to change it, perhaps we ought to ask ourselves, what needs to happen in me in order for God to work in these other areas of my life?
The beauty of the Acts account is found in the verses following the question regarding the kingdom...(Acts 1:4-8) Jesus, in a sense, gently brushes the question about their political agenda away and in a sense says, in order to help the disciples get the point, don't worry about such things, cause here's what I'm going to do for you..."you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Essentially saying...Here you are worried about these little things going on around you...I want to empower you to change the world!
This, I believe is the rallying cry for us...We're so worried about the stuff going on in our lives and around our world, God wants to begin the process of fixing those things, by empowering us to change them from the inside out!
What is it, that needs to change in you in order for change to begin around you?