Pauseforamoment

Just a minor vent.

I turned on the tv while I was having lunch, and flicked over to see what Oprah was saying today. She had on some lady who has written some New Age book on how to have a successful life.”You can create a new future blah blah blah…. speak out only positves blah blah…the universe is always listening to you so it is very important not to speak out negatives about yourself or your life blah… you are sowing seeds into your future blah-de-blah blah.” (Minus the blah part. I put that in myself.)

You know what bugs me?

All this talk is a complete rip-off from the bible. They’ve copied it. What she is saying is actually true, but not totally Truth.

The bible says things like, “There’s life and death in the power of the tongue”.

This is exactly the kind of thing she is talking about, except it is twisted slightly and includes that ‘universe’ crap. If we speak out negatives, we are speaking out death which of course will affect us. If we speak out positives, that is what we will reap. Think about it.

“I’m getting a cold.”

“I haven’t been sick for a while. I think I might be coming down with something.”

“That always happens to me.”

“I’m so unlucky”.

These words are not life giving. They are negatives. We are told that life and death resides in the power of the tongue. What are we speaking out? What does our mind dwell on and think about? The truth of God’s word? Or something else?

We are also told, “Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be pleasing to you, oh Lord. ” I’m sure it is not pleasing to the Father if we dwell and meditate on sickness and negative things. The bible totally coins meditation. It is mentioned several times. We are told to let the Word dwell in our hearts and minds, let it be a life-giving, transforming force. What happens?

The New Agers take meditation and make it into something slightly different. As a result, most christians think meditation is of the devil. We are scared of it. We wonder if we are turning to the other side. What is a beautiful, holy, spiritual thing created by God to allow us to be transformed by the Word has been snatched away and distorted and they think they invented it.

I’m not having a go at New Agers. Sometimes (ducking, here) they are more in touch with spiritual things than christians. They just have a distorted version of the truth. When you leave God out of it, it becomes a New Age practice. The devil has just manipulated something that was originally designed for christians and made it seem like the original is evil and wrong as well. We are missing out on so much because these wiles.

So many people who don’t know the Lord are hungry to feed their spirits, hungry for some kind of truth in their lives. They’ve been sucked into a semi-truth (one that is making a lot of people very rich), and distorted the original, great truths in the Word, which were designed to draw us closer to God and help us be changed from glory to glory. Makes me cross.