"Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes." - Psychology Today
Imagine for a moment a scene where Clint Eastwood's character Dirty Harry mistakes self-help guru Tony Robbins as a criminal he is in hot pursuit of:
"Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a
.44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, you've gotta ask yourself one question:
"Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?"
Tony Robbins would probably counter with, "Well, it is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. What people can do is very different from what they will do."
Robbins would probably talk Harry's ear off with a little more self-help guru banter and try to change him, "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."
Of course, Dirty Harry's approach would be his old standard self, "Okay, I hear ya. But I wish to keep criminals off the street and there's only one way I know how to do that."
And..you probably know how that scene would end.
While Dirty Harry is relentless in his tracking down a criminal until justice is served, well in this case his way of justice, Tony Robbins is resilient in getting people to unleash the power within. Same resilience just a different approach.
Clint Eastwood once said, "You should never give up your inner self." Hmm, sounds like Clint may have taken in a Tony Robbins book or two don't you think.
For all of the psychology books, classes, self-help cd's and videos we may indulge in to improve ourselves, there is One Book that covers all of this in a more satisfying and successful way.
While Robbins uses the approach of controlling our minds and emotions in a positive manner to get to a successful conclusion, and Dirty Harry just toying with peoples minds, those of us who are believers in Christ are told to have the mind of Christ. That is because we do have the mind of Christ if we are walking in a right relationship with Him.
For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Cor. 2:16
To have the mind of Christ is to think and act like Christ in all situations.
Graham Cooke puts it like this,
"There is only one thought to have in any situation, and that is the one that Jesus is having about it."
"When we are learning to walk with God, we are submitting ourselves to the way that He thinks."
In layman's terms we need to see things how God sees them. If we view ourselves as in Christ and know that Christ is in us, what is stopping us from seeing victory in the midst of defeat? Does God look at our situation and say, "There is no way out of this mess."? Of course not. We need to see things as He does.
In the Book of Numbers Moses sent out twelve scouts to explore the land of Canaan before taking it over. The scouts report consisted of "But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there!"
"We can't go up against them! They are stronger than we are!"
"Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that's what they thought, too!"
If Tony Robbins were there in the midst of them he would probably laugh it off and say,
"C'mon guys. Mind over matter."
Somehow I think if Tony Robbins really met Dirty Harry he would have gotten himself out of the situation,
"C'mon Harry. Let me buy you a cup of coffee and we'll talk this over."
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Tony Robbins
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