Friday, April 8, 2011

WIZARD


At the conclusion of the movie,
'The Wizard of Oz,' the four characters all discover that the abilities and attributes they had spent so much time searching for were things they already possessed.

Lesson learned. Too many are waiting for the 'wizard' to come along, in his many forms - therapist, counselor, coach, boss, teacher, pastor, spouse - and do for them what they will ultimately have to do for themselves. At the end of the day, no teacher or counselor or spouse or friend can truly solve your problem. Your greatest ally for a solution is not any of the above, good as some of them are. Your greatest ally is God.

As soon as you see that, in conjunction with accepting responsibility for your own life, you free yourself from any delusion that some miracle by one of your allies is going to make life better. You begin to see another possibility: that only God and you (in that order) can bring that miracle into being.

This is not a 'just believe in the good in yourself' theology; it is a 'put your faith and trust in God' theology. Have you ever noticed that when God gives you a dream, you still have to work to make it happen? It's God -- and you -- in that order. This isn't by-passing God or stepping ahead of Him - it is a recognition that He has already put some things inside you that are waiting to get out.

Time to let them out.

And be blessed.