IT'S NOT LOCKED!

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan 

Not Locked

If you have ever searched for something you already had, you'll understand how frustrating it can be. This can happen, when we expect the object of our search to be far. You're in hurry, and you begin the search for your car key, but can't find it, then you realize you'd been holding it all the time. Or, you're searching for your glasses and are unable to find it, until you realize you've had them on, all along.

On one of his European tours, the master magician and locksmith Harry Houdini found himself locked in by his own thinking. After he had been searched and manacled in a Scottish town jail, the old turnkey shut him in a cell and walked away. Houdini quickly freed himself from his shackles and then tackled the cell lock. But despite all his efforts, the lock wouldn't open.
Finally, ever more desperate but completely exhausted, he leaned against the door--and it swung open so unexpectedly that he nearly fell headlong into the corridor. The turnkey had not locked it.

The fastest lane on the highway of life is neither the speed lane, nor the service lane, but the PATIENCE LANE. Like Harry Houdini, many of us have been locked-in by our own thinking. We haven't been patient enough to observe that the door has been opened, waiting for you to lean against it. Have you been picking the lock - praying, fasting, sowing seeds and done all you should - but you can't open it? Yes, it's because it's open - just lean against it. Don't sulk, or fret. It's not locked!