Say YES!

I watched 'YES MAN', a recent movie by Jim Carrey last night. It's simply the story of a bank worker who had developed an extreme negative attitude towards life after his wife has left him. He avoided friends and socialising, rented movies and refused to pick his phone calls up. His outlook on life was really bleak until he met an old friend who invited him to an empowerment seminar. He eventually made it there and was challenged by the speaker to make a covenant of saying YES to every opportunity. This changed his life forever.

He started saying YES until he took it to the extreme. The surprising thing about it all was that it worked. It presented him with the opportunities he could never have dreamed of ;

1. He learnt how to fly a plane
2. He learnt how to speak Korean
3. He met a girl he truly loved
4. He went bungee jumping
5. He travelled spontaneously
6. He gave out loans indiscriminately and ended up being promoted
7. He built friendships through the loans he gave which paid off as they all returned his favours one way or the other

There were other things he did not worthy of mention but the point is he said YES and it revolutionised his life. Because he had lived life on an extreme NO, he needed an extreme YES to develop a healthy rhythm of facing life head-on. 2010 is a time to say YES. YES to those God-given dreams, YES to those God-inspired business ideas, YES to overcoming those sins that doth easily beset us, YES to loving people you wouldn't ordinarily come close to, YES to living life like God intended, YES! YES!! YES!!!

When you decide to say YES, God's Grace is available to back you up. Remember Mary, when she was visited by Gabriel and given the message of being the channel through which the Messiah would come, she said YES. Look at how it's rendered in the Message translation:

                              And Mary said,
                          
                              "YES, I see it all now:
                                   I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve
                                Let it be with me
                                   just as you say     (Luke 1v38)


I'll leave you with these words from John Wesley:

Do all the good you can - YES
By all the means you can - YES
In all the ways you can - YES
In all the places you can - YES
At all the times you can - YES
To all the people you can - YES
As long as you ever can - YES


*I've added the YES at the end of each line*