First, stop looking to be another person’s copy and two,  begin to celebrate your own original and unique making.  You are not in competition with anyone when it comes to being you.  As a matter of fact, the faster you become comfortable in your own skin, the faster your train leaves the station.  Hang with me here.  We are attracted to another person’s success, looks or celebrity because we perceive that their life is so much more glamorous than our own.  We project our life against theirs and guess what?  We choose theirs! But our fascination is misplaced.   The allure these people have is that they have learned how to capitalize on being themselves!  That is what makes them appear so much more charming and attractive.  They have embraced their making!

It is the celebration of your precious and unique gifts which will birth your joy and make you attractive to the right people and circumstances.  So how about this?  Switch your focus.  Rejoice in how God has designed you! Now watch what happens.    Ask the Lord to help you discover your distinction.  Believe that you were created with a purpose and destiny worthy of blessing and significance.  Thank God for it.

Meditate on His Word daily and let Him confirm to you again and again that you are His valuable creation.  Soon, everything within you will be filled with the knowledge of His love and yes, His approval.  And one day, there it is.  You look in the mirror, and you are thrilled with what God has made.  “Hello world.  Nobody does me better!”

For most people, it just had little staying power and even less results.

What happened is that they had connected with one of God’s principles.  They  had gotten excited, inspired, fired up for ninety minutes, “Yes, I can,” If I can see it, I can have it,” “All of my dreams Can come true…” Wonderful!    Except, no God.  Close! When you give the “Universe” credit for God’s works the results are always the same, empty.  Power comes from God alone.  The universe [all of them], are God’s servants.  Look at Psalm 119:89-91  “Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.  Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides. They continue this day according to Your ordinances,  For all are Your servants.” The reason there was no lasting fruit with The Secret is that no one was told what the secret really was.  Actually the Bible calls it a “Mystery.”  “…the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints.  To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:26-27.

The Mystery is a Person!  The Secret is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  He is the Source of all power, and when you apply His principles with faith and expectation you discover something much greater than the universe.  You discover that you are a child of  The Source.  And as such, the universe bows to His Word in you!  The Secret works!  But only for those who realize that it is Christ’s love that makes the abundant life possible.  As long as we attempt to take the glory for our achievements we will struggle in one form or another.  But what rest and peace we find the moment we acknowledge that all we have or ever will possess comes from the hand of our loving heavenly Father who designed our purpose long before the world existed.  This one you need to see for yourself…Ephesians 2:10. Shalom!