What Do You Have To Show? | Rabbi Naftali Horowitz

foreign [Music] driving home from work one day and he sees fire engines racing down his block as he gets closer he notices that Flames are shooting out of his house and he quickly exits his car and runs straight towards his front door where he's stopped by a group of firemen and they say sir you can't go in there he'll definitely die that house is completely engulfed in flames ignoring the advice of the fireman he goes racing into the house he comes out a few minutes later holding his little child let's stop and look at the story for a second this man was not known to be courageous in fact he's known to be somewhat of a coward this man was deathly afraid of fire smoke and all of the above what then possessed this man to run into this raging Inferno the answer is a thought while the firemen had took all the odds of him surviving and said there's no way he's going to do so he ignored all those odds because the power of one thought propelled him into that house but held him to save his child and that thought was my son is in there we all face challenges every day these challenges seem insurmountable to us what I found works for me is the power of a thought a thought that races through my mind as I face that challenge the power of that thought transforms that moment into something that I'm able to conquer I once had the following thought when it comes to the challenges of looking at things that we shouldn't I'll tell you a story there was once a bandit he used to rob banks he was known as the blue bagged Bandit and the reason was he had a signature blue bag with which he would approach the Tyler with his gun and request all the money one day the FBI finally caught up with him and as soon as they caught him they said where's all the money and he said what money well all the money you've stolen from all the banks you've robbed over the years he says there is no money you see this blue bag it has a big hole in it one day I realized that an entire day goes by and I look at numerous things that I shouldn't as I drive through the streets as I walk down the streets as i gaze at things on the internet as I'm doing my business and at the end of the day I have absolutely nothing to show for it every site I look at is like putting money into that bag and having it fall out a minute later there isn't even the power of recall because we are so accustomed to looking at things all day so in essence I'm racking up Crime After Crime and having absolutely nothing to show for it what a futile senseless way to spend my day on the contrary the power of refraining power of withholding and saying no I won't look is so unbelievably powerful [Music] time we refrain we walk away with eternity