The law of attraction can put some Christians up in arms, but the idea that you can knowingly or unknowingly put a positive or negative idea or intention out into the universe (asking God) and you will attract that thing to you is compelling. In Luke 11 Christ says “ask and it will be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened.” Pretty powerful stuff. God’s laws and promises are true. They work whether we believe in them or not, and whether we understand them or not. We are also created in the image of God. This is true even if we don’t know God. Since God has creative power with His words, so do we. This extends even to those who are not followers of God. Stick with me here. I do have a point.
I bring all this up because of basketball. Our home owner’s association is considering installing a basketball court. A discussion about it in a neighborhood online forum really got out of hand. My husband and I are against having the court installed across the street from our house. We think that it will generate excessive noise, loitering, and a greater amount of unwanted traffic from outside the neighborhood. Some people are very much in favor of the court going in as an added community amenity. The conversation quickly devolved into a racial conflict when people began calling my white husband a racist for not wanting the basketball court. I find that ironic, as I am an African American.
This made me think about what we look for in our lives, and I had an epiphany. There has been some fascinating research done about the reticular activation system in our brains, Basically, when we fix our minds on something (set an intention) our minds go to work. Th blinders come off so to speak and our brains begin to look for ways to make that intention happen. All of this happens automatically, even if we are not aware of the process.
So, if a person believes that white people are racist, they will see what can be perceived as racism in anything white people do.
Human beings are so much more powerful than we ever dared realize. Created in the image of All Mighty God, with all the privileges and responsibilities that entails. This is why sonship and salvation are so important. When we live our lives a prodigals, we waste our wealth and give away our power. We become so lost and misguided that we end up eating left over pig slop from the hog trough.
