The Secret - What Does The Bible Say

SERMON ON THE SECRET

On a crisp spring morning the Godhead was playing golf on what was surely the most heavenly of all courses. This is a point I have long disagreed with my wife about. I say it is a spiritual game created in paradise itself but my wife says it’s a silly game played by poorly dressed men avoiding their respective honey-do lists.

Regardless, they were coming up to the 18th hole when a hole-in-one would secure a victory for the first to tee-off. The ball was placed and driven 356 yards of the 413 yard par four; an excellent drive in anyone’s eyes. Just as the second person was teeing his ball a snake came out and attacked the first person’s ball. Just as the snake bit the ball, an eagle swooped down and caught the snake. After lifting the snake and the ball high up into the air the eagle proceeded back to her nest to feed her chicks the mornings catch.

Just as she flew over the green, a bolt of lightening cracked and singed the tail feathers of the eagle causing her to drop the snake. The snake fell only to land on the green and cough up the ball which rolled towards the hole, hit the stick then fell into the cup. Jesus stood up before he drove his shot and said, “Nice shot dad.” To which God responded, “You just have to believe, son. You just have to believe.”

We say it comically but truer words have never been spoken; “You just have to believe.”

Have you ever wanted to have more money than you or your family could ever spend or give away? Have you ever wished you truly enjoyed your job, or had a better house to live in? Have you ever wished the kids would just listen to you for one minute rather than tune you out as soon as you start talking to them? Have you ever wondered what if?

I am here today to tell you that if you are looking for something, regardless of what it is, all you have to do is ask.

Every few years a secular book is written that hits the best seller list that challenges us to review our faith because it calls into question the very things we believe in. In a book written by Rhonda Byrne called ‘The Secret’, this issue of believing is visited but it is not to call the Christian faith into question but has us turn to the bible for an explanation of undefined events that present themselves in the book. In her book she has commentary from several successful personnel from different walks of life all giving their own definition of what the Secret is and how to use it but as I will show this morning, all of the information we need to truly understand the principles identified in the book are found in the bible.

The Secret is defined as the Law of Attraction and exists in the universe with other natural laws such as the Law of Gravity. No one questions the law of gravity they just know that it exists and regardless of a person’s position in life, gravity will act on everyone in a like fashion. The Law of Attraction is no different. The Law of Attraction will continue to operate methodically, and flawlessly, regardless of your awareness of it or ignorance to it. It will continue to operate exactly as it was created, regardless of your belief or unbelief in it. It is like a magnet that will attract anything that is a like material.

Here is an example of the law of attraction, ever wonder why 1% of the population earns over 95% of the money? Why some people always seem to have good things happen to them and you never appear to catch a break? As I put it, why do some people who constantly fall into a pile of manure always come up cornering the market on fertilizer? The reason is the Law of Attraction. These people are controlling what they think about and are therefore controlling the outcome of the situation they find themselves in.

In The Secret, it is reported that the universe feeds off of what people think about. What you think about you will bring about. People who are happy and positive continually attract situations that are happy and positive but people who are unhappy and negative will attract unhappy and negative situations.

See the reality that is being reported in the book does not differentiate between good and bad it only focuses on the topic not the tense. If you focus on wanting to get out of debt, the focus in on debt and you will get more of it. If you focus on filling the empty pews in the back of the church more pews will empty as a result of your concentrating on the issue. If you wish you had a job you did not hate you will find you hate your job more and more because that is what you are focusing on.