Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life by Norman Vincent Peale

Author:Norman Vincent Peale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I believe the greatest health insurance a person can carry is to see himself, proudly and humbly, as a creation of God. God, who is infinitely gifted and infinitely wise, does not do bad work. If He created you in His image, and He did, that means that His perfection, His excellence, His craftsmanship are built into you. It follows then, does it not, that the best way to keep His handiwork in good running order is to stay close to Him.

The other day in a town where I had made a speech, a man filled with high spirits, zest, and goodwill greeted me with, “I still have the faucet.”

I was baffled. “What do you mean, faucet?”

“Oh,” he said, “don’t you remember? You gave me the faucet idea.” He went on to remind me of a talk I had given some twenty years ago, and presently I remembered the illustration he was referring to. At the time, I had been reading T. E. Lawrence’s book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom . Lawrence was the great desert fighter of World War I who identified himself with the Arabs and became one of their leaders in their revolt against the Turks.

After the war, Lawrence took a few of his Arab friends from the burning sands of the desert to the boulevards of Paris. He put them up in one of the most elegant hotels. He showed them all the sights: the Champs Élysées, the Eiffel Tower, the tomb of Napoleon. But they were only mildly interested in these things. The one object in Paris that fascinated them was the faucet in the bathtub in their hotel. Lawrence would find them gathered around the tub turning on the faucet with exclamations of delight, and watching the strong stream of water which they could control at will. They kept saying, “Isn’t this marvelous? All you do is turn a little wheel and you get all the water you want!” It was amazing to men who had lived all their lives on the hot and arid desert sands.

“You foolish fellows,” Lawrence said to them. “Don’t you know that this faucet is attached to a pipe, which leads to a network of pipes, which lead to great conduits, which lead to vast reservoirs? And don’t you know that those reservoirs are so located that the melting snows and the rains from the mountains come surging into them? You cannot get water from a faucet unless it is connected to a source of water.”

So the man who had heard me tell this story said, “That little parable got through to me somehow. I realized that I badly needed a faucet attached to the vast reservoirs of God’s power. I decided to go with Jesus Christ as the directing force in my life.” He went on to say that he had stopped doing some things he had been doing, and where, before there had been no flow of power in his life, now it came surging through and had been flowing ever since.

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