The Secret
It’s a beautiful day.
You’re sitting on your deck and reading Ephesians in the New Living Translation.
And your eyes fall upon the words:
“God’s secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ.” (Eph. 1:9)
You pause, just for a moment with this thought floating in your head:
God’s secret plan.
There was a Newsweek article a number of years ago, about the mega-bestseller book, The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne.
The article begins like this:
“Decoding The Secret”
Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking.
The book is basically a mishmash of pantheism, pseudo-science and the-power-of-positive-thinking. The latest in a long line of “the secret of success” books dating back seventy years to Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich!. This one is written by a savy Australian TV talk show producer.
The article goes on to say the “secret” of The Secret is what Byrne calls “the law of attraction,” which holds that you create your own reality through your thoughts.
Rhonda Byrne says she got The Secret.
From the back of the book:
You hold in your hand a Great Secret. It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. This centuries-hold Secret has been understood by some of the most prominent people in history: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie,— along with inventors, theologians, scientists, and great thinkers. Now The Secret is revealed to the world.
Interestingly, the Apostle Paul made a similar claim when he said, “God’s secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ.”
Through the Scriptures in Isaiah, we have been hearing of this not so secret that God had to bring about a peaceable Kingdom, unlike the Kingdoms that had come before.
Paul says the secret is centered on Christ.
Ephesians 1:6-11
6 So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[b] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
9 God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ—which is to fulfill his own good plan. 10 And this is the plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. 11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[c] for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.

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