The Secret

Back in February, Oprah featured a show about The Secret. What is The SecretÉ It is defined as the law of attraction that states that like attracts like. The concept says that the energy you put into the world - both good and bad - is exactly what comes back to you. This means you create the circumstances of your life with the choices you make every day. (from oprah.com)
Basically a spinoff idea from the concept of karma, The Secret has made itself popular by giving people the ultimate self-help formula. The better the energy you put into the universe, the better your circumstances.

It`s all fine and good for someone that is wealthy and rich to pat themselves on the back thinking that they somehow deserve their fortune because of their positive energy giving but I have a hard time imagining a rape victim reading this concept. Who`s going to tell them that they deserve what they gotÉ

It`s part of human nature to try to make life predictable. We want to stereotype people so we can somehow understand and predict what they might be like. We compartmentalize ourselves so that there`s order and predictability to our lives. Deep within us, we want to believe that if we do the right things, say the right things and avoid the wrong people, we`ll be successful, healthy and wise. Our concept of justice demands the opposite for those that do otherwise.

But the true secret isn`t a secret at all. It`s written in the only book the world wants to reject as old and antiquated. Humans, in the image of God, are given free choice. Because of the sin of one man passed down, we are all sinners. That sin perverts the free choice given by God so that some can use it for destruction and brokenness. There isn`t rhyme or reason to most of the anguish in the world. The reality is that it is just there. Waiting for Christ to come back and redeem it once and for all. It won`t happen because of anything we do with our energy or otherwise. It happens because God said it would.