By Marchesa Ababa on June 19th, 2007
I read a good article today on Christianity Today about “The Secret.”
I’m not sure if a lot of people heard about this movement, but once I heard about it, I was very hesitant. I’m always very hesitant though with large popular “spiritual” movements that promote something other than the grace of Christ, and instead focuses on the efforts of self rather be on the mercy of God. I am not trying to hate on people’s beliefs, but there’s no getting around how there are so many aspects of ‘the Secret’ that I personally disagree with.
To read an article on it, click on this: The Secret Exposed
Last week, the I had an online case study discussion with the YB, relevant to recent popular culture that tests what they’ve learned in Galatians and Romans. Basically, we took a very popular, a much widely listened to iconic figure who was saying that there is more than one way to heaven than through Jesus Christ. One way, she discussed, was to live a good life.
But that’s the problem isn’t it? Goodness becomes relative. What is good?
The Bible explains that no one is righteous, but because of Jesus, we have been made righteous in God’s sight, therefore eliminating our merit, because we cannot work for salvation nor earn holiness. Heaven was paved a way through Jesus alone, and that’s what makes grace so amazing! And that’s what elevates Christ. More of Him and less of us.
Goodness is through Jesus alone.
And we need to accept that whatever happens in our lives- the good and the bad, that we live by grace…believing that no matter what, God is good. We do not control all the forces through attraction. We cannot make the world revolve around us and bring us all goodness by believing and channeling positivity. It reduces our need for God, saying that we control the goodness and blessings in our lives because we attracted those things to us. But then what about the bad stuff that happens to us? Did we ask for that too? Disease? Poverty? Heartache? Death?
Do suffering countries not get “the Secret” right? Mothers who lose their children? Parents that lose their sons and daughters to war and terrorism?
For me, the secret’s already been out, and it’s not so much a secret. It happened at Calvary…when God sent His son Jesus.
And it doesn’t cost a lot of money so you can order the video…they have it at motels for you to read; they give it out at streets, missionaries give them out to poor countries…and we all probably own one in our shelves at home- the Bible…
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