What is there to believe in if you can't believe in yourself?
Asking God to change a situation does nothing but shift blame. Take responsibility for your own actions. God will always provide opportunities, but it's up to you to walk through the door. Put into practice the things you believe to be true and test them for yourself. In doing so, you will fortify your shield of self-confidence against the elemental forces of fear that plant seeds of doubt in the garden of your soul.
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Who do you think gives you the strength to face a problem.
"Blessed are those who trust in the Lord......they are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit"
Jermiah 17:7-8
In my opinion asking God for help is not shifting blame, but giving way to divine intervention, walking in faith and fufilling your obligation to take advantage of opportunities given to you by God.
anonymous - Hey, that's a good point.
"THERE is no God," the wicked saith,
"And truly it's a blessing,
For what He might have done with us
It's better only guessing."
"There is no God," a youngster thinks,
"or really, if there may be,
He surely did not mean a man
Always to be a baby."
"There is no God, or if there is,"
The tradesman thinks, "'twere funny
If He should take it ill in me
To make a little money."
"Whether there be," the rich man says, "It matters very little,
For I and mine, thank somebody,
Are not in want of victual."
Some others, also, to themselves,
Who scarce so much as doubt it,
Think there is none, when they are well,
And do not think about it.
But country folks who live beneath
The shadow of the steeple;
The parson and the parson's wife,
And mostly married people;
Youths green and happy in first love,
So thankful for illusion;
And men caught out in what the world
Calls guilt, in first confusion;
And almost everyone when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God,
Or something very like Him.
[Arthur Hugh Clough]
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