Being a born-again Christian, and an ardent student of life/men/women/psychology etc.,  I had to read the book The Secret, put together by Rhonda Byrne, and see what it meant to me. You see, Bruce Lee told us to take what is useful to you (applicable to you and your life), and leave the rest. This applies not only to the martial arts, but any art, any skill, any belief, including your religious belief.

Where I stand is that the Word of God as written in its original language is the absolute truth of life. Jesus is my Savior and the prophesied Messiah of the Jews. I fully believe in the Word of God, and I take it as the utmost authority. In the Liberty of Christ, I study areas like psychology, accepting what makes sense to me, and rejecting what the Word of God rejects.

Having said this, you know where I am coming from. I keep an open mind in the freedom of Christ, but avoid sin. There are those who, to use a cliché, become so open-minded, their brains fall out. They embrace current societal standards to the detriment of the living Word inside them. Don't be one of those people. Study any area you wish, but always keep the Word of God as Utmost Truth.

Back to the topic of this post... The Secret. What does it teach? What is the one Secret that the author claims was known by every great thinker that ever lived, including Einstein, Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie, and others? And how could she possibly know that they all knew this one Secret?

For the sake of utter simplicity so I can move forward in this post, I will boil the Secret down to its essentials: You Get What You Wish For.

What? Thats it? It's simplified, I know. I apologize. If you want to get deeper, read the darn book.

We've all basically grown up hearing the Secret called something else: a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. It's like this: If you want to have or be something, you must visualize it, you must desire it, and you must believe that it will come to you. This sounds great, but the only thing bothering me as a Christian, is that I must acknowledge God as the giver of all good things. If I simply visualize and manifest things on my own (or what I suppose to be my own... there is always a spirit behind every manifestation), I'm stealing glory away from God. Plus, we're humans, not supernatural beings. There's gotta be SOMETHING, some power, bringing these things to us.

I think it's one thing to visualize yourself as being healthier and happier, and focusing on that picture of yourself as you strive to your goals. It's quite another to come into POSESSION OF something simply by visualizing it. It's very possible, from my understanding of the spirit world, that demons are answering the call of those who use the Secret, because these exact same methods are used by psychics, Shamans, shapeshifters, and the like. These people deliberately call upon a power greater than themselves to give them whatever they want... unaware that these powers are demonic beings. How do they do it? They see what they want, believe it will come, and it comes. You see, faith is the key to getting whatever you want, whether you use it to get power from God or from demons. Doubt is truly the greatest barrier to operating in the spirit world.

We should ask God for all the things we want, and give glory and praise to him when we get them. Let everything we own glorify him.