LIKE A FLY ON THE WALL

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I often share the following little illustration with my counseling clients to challenge them to avoid the same old tired, negative mindsets which prevent us from fulfilling God's best plans for our lives. 

You walk into a dark room, and you notice a young man flipping the light switch. It's like you're a fly on the wall. He has no idea you are there.

He's furiously flipping the light switch, and is looking expectedly up at the light in the middle of the ceiling, and... it's not coming on.

You watch the young fella for several minutes, and he keeps flipping the light switch while looking up at the light bulb.

He doesn't check to see if the bulb is tight in the socket. He doesn't check the fuse box. He doesn't call an electrician. He simply flips the light switch.

And it's not coming on.

Now, you turn and walk out of the room.

You walk into the same dark room 50 years later, and see an old man with a beard, and holding a cane, and he looks very familiar, and... he's flipping a light switch while looking expectantly up at the light bulb!

This is how some of us lives our lives!

by Bill McDonald, PhD

(Funny, I was watching a re-run of "The Andy Griffith Show" while I was writing this blog, and Andy and Barney are standing in his office talking to a bunch of young boys. Somehow, they got on the subject of "what if the lights go out?" To which Opie replies, "Check the fuse box!" I kid you not).