Choose Hope, and You'll attract a lot of people

I think more than anything, running has taught me the difference between the power of fear and the power of hope. The key lesson in there has been discovering we have a choice as to which of those powers we lean into.

There are a lot of people out there making a lot of money on this concept of "visualization." They encourage you to picture your dreams as if they've already happened, and this unleashes superpowers in your brain.

The more I read up on these visualization techniques, the more I've come to see God was the first visualization guru.

One of the masters of visualization is Jack Canfield. He offers the following benefits for visualization:

1.) It activates your creative subconscious which will start generating creative ideas to achieve your goal.
2.) It programs your brain to more readily perceive and recognize the resources you will need to achieve your dreams.
3.) It activates the law of attraction, thereby drawing into your life the people, resources, and circumstances you will need to achieve your goals.
4.) It builds your internal motivation to take the necessary actions to achieve your dreams.

I read those, and as someone who has spent some time reading the bible, I think - those benefits are all very biblical promises.

God created us to create. He gave us gifts and our minds are absolutely wired to tap into those gifts. God has promised us, if we knock at his door with a heart for maximizing those gifts, he's going to give us what we need. He also said when we do that, be prepared to answer for the hope we have in us, because people are going to start asking us about it - that's that law of attraction. And of course, when we start seeing the fruits of our efforts, the holy spirit living in us comes alive, it screams go go go. There is no greater motivation.

God didn't give us a spirit of fear, so when we try to tap into it, when we visualize the worst case scenarios, we are entering a battle we can't win. A battle with ourselves, and a battle with God.

God gave us a spirit of hope. He's told us how our story ends. He gave us some directions for the journey there, and promised no law of attraction is stronger than his attraction to sharing that journey with us.

We all get a choice today - fear or hope.

Choose fear, be prepared for a battle you can't win.

A long and exhausting battle.

Choose hope - be prepared to attract a lot of people along on your journey.
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And at the front of that line - at the very front - will be God.