"God helps those who help themselves" - "No, it's NOT in the Bible!"
How much of our compassion or politics is based in the rule of people need to be good Americans and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? To be a "good Christian" somehow gets translated into being a "good person." The whole basis for God sending Jesus to our planet was because we cannot help or save ourselves. The meaning of life starts with a death. Faith and love on God's terms means we die to our own way of thinking, to our way of planning, dying to our past, dreams of our own making, that we die to self and attachment to this earth. There are many things we hear about faith but faith is like dying! The world doesn't need more good intentions but it needs a few more deaths. Death to greed, death to pride, death to having to be in control and things always going our way. I really believe there would be a lot more singing in this world if our lives were more dead to ourselves and more alive to Almighty God!
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