The Law of Attraction

The Law of Attraction. Romans 8:28-30.

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. Romans 8:28-30 (NKJV)

You are what you think you are. This is a cold hard fact about the human experience and many live lives of defeat and despair. Paul has some strong words describing his concern, for he too saw others making the mistake of guiding their reality into sorrow.

Did you know that you can guide your fate? Not only is it true from a scriptural point, it is true of life in general. As people we attract to ourselves success or failure. If a person has a good disposition, he will draw others who have the same. This person will have opportunities open up for them that others will never see.

Your disposition attracts people. You have heard people say, that birds of a feather flock together. If you look throughout life, you will find those who have like interests, together in the environments, doing things together.

So in your environment, you have attracted almost everything that you like and many things that you dislike. Your attitude towards life has shaped who you are and for some they have permanent wrinkles on their face from the frowns they wear.

Eastern philosophers have seen this also and created whole religions based upon having a good balance to life. They teach people to be patient, long suffering, and have evoked teachings that you can control your inner self to find happiness and long life.

Today, there is a repackaging of the eastern psychologies into movies that help modern people become involved in changing their paths in life. "The Law of Attraction" states that you attract good things and bad things into your life by thinking in the direction that causes them. Now as a Christian, I would not lead someone to religiously follow these philosophies; however, in them I find much truth.

This truth is found in the very passage that Paul was communicating. He says, "All things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose." This verse is a building block in our faith and yet many still do not have it memorized. Where we are to live by it, people have passed it by.

When you build on this truth, you can approach the unknown with confidence. With that confidence you attract many things to your life. The same would be said if you approached with worry, you will also attract to yourself results, some of which were unnecessary.

If you have heard it said, "let go and let God" the person is communicating an attitude of release of worry, which releases frustration, which releases tension, which can impact a person spiritually, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Yet too many times Christians are suffering from hypertension that can even lead them to physical death.

God never meant Christians to carry the burdens of the world. Instead He reached His hand out and offered the power that raised Christ from the dead to resurrect our lives, protecting our future. That is why a Christian must grab hold of God's good intentions and look forward to their life becoming successful and victorious.

Even in prison, the Apostle Paul was able to see good coming from it. God had arranged Paul to be in the place where Paul could write, pray, think, and encourage Churches throughout Asia Minor. Paul never saw that this work that God was doing would lead to these encouragements being published from generation to generation and spreading throughout the world.

In his circumstance, Paul worked hard to stay focused on the important building block of our lives that all things work together for good to them that love God.

One of the greatest features of our Bible is the truths about the foreknowledge of God. God wrote history from the end back to the beginning. Before He made the world, it was decided that Christ would die for us and that means He knew each and every one of us before we were born. He knew the corruption sin would have and He wrote into His plan the experiences we would have as we built our faith in Him and released our lives to His keeping.

Now going back to the Law of Attraction, what do you attract into your Christian experience? Each of us will answer differently; however, it is well known that Christians struggle with finances attracting to themselves debts that they cannot pay. They live under the cloud of bad financing and because of past failure they never look to the possibilities that God can fix their spending habits.

These have attacked to themselves, frustration, subjection to their places of work, arguments with their spouse, and their children are being and have been raised to know only that type of a lifestyle. Where all things could be working for good, their attitudes towards finances, life, family, friends, and service to God has been placed under a dark cloud.

Now if these people continue on living the same cycle in life, they can expect more of the same and even worse results. These need to break this lifestyle and bring change into their lives.

They need to repent, and relentlessly seek to change their way of life, their habits in life, the way they approach their relationship with God. Everything needs to change now or the same choices will attract undesirable results.

The same can be said about those who are overweight; a lifestyle change needs to occur. They attract to themselves the same results that manifest in different way as high blood pressure, sore bodies, unusual sicknesses, organ failures, and expensive doctor bills.

In every negative avenue of life, you will find that people attract to themselves harm. Their dispositions are affected, their thoughts are skewed, and they attract improper desires.

The bottom line to this building block of life is the love of God. Good things happen to them that love God and hear His calling. He is calling us in the morning, during our day, and when we are going in the wrong direction. It is up to us to answer God back in faith and the best answer is the answer standing on the truth that every circumstance is going to work out for good, because we love God.