On What You Believe is What You Get

time to time you’re going to hear me say something that’s going to make you wonder if I’ve still got all my marbles. Well, this is going to be one of those times. Are you ready? OK, here goes.

The moment you become aware
that there’s something you need,
it’s already on its way to you.

Hard to believe, isn’t it? But Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, scientist, and religious thinker of the seventeenth century, the prophet Isaiah, and Jesus the Christ all thought so as well.

The way Pascal put it was "Thou wouldst not have sought me hadst thou not already found me."

Isaiah put it a bit differently, ". . . before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear."

And Jesus put it differently still: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."

Ok, you’re probably saying about this time, let’s assume that what these three people said is correct. Why doesn’t it work for me?

Well, I can’t tell you why it doesn’t work for you. But I can give you something to think about.

What happens to you in life is more a function of expectation than of anything else. If you truly expect something to happen to you, if you’re convinced of it at the deepest level of your being, never wavering, never doubting, then it will. If you don’t, it won’t.

Now I can’t prove this any more than I can prove that God exists. No one can. But what I can do is ask you to . . .

Think about it.