Harry Houdini started out as any ordinary magician. He called himself the “king of cards” yet he competent but not particularly skilled sleight-of-hand artist. Yet there was one thing that set Houdini apart, He was an escape artist.
It wasn’t just the prepared
acts he created that mystified audiences. He would challenge Scotland-yard
coppers and Siberian prison guards to try to contain him. He invited the public
to devise contraptions to hold him, including nailed packing crates, riveted
boilers, wet sheets, mail bags, and even the belly of a whale that had washed
ashore in Boston. It seemed no one or nothing could hold him.
The key to his escapes wasn’t a physical one,
however, it was mental. As one writer told it was his belief that the means to
escape was possible and was within his reach. He believed he could. And then he
made it so.
That’s an idea we
need to have as well. Too many times we are trapped in a prison of can’t. We
can’t overcome. There is no way out. We are stuck. There is no hope.
Consider the words of
1st Corinthians 10:13;
No temptation has
overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not
allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will
provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.
When we seem
surrounded by sin, encompassed by temptation, there is a way of escape. And it
is within our reach. It may take some work. I may stretch us and strain us. But
there is an escape.
Believe you can and
make it so.
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