A customer walked into my clothing shop and asked to see the pants that were advertised in the paper that day. “We don’t have an ad in the paper today,” I told her. She insisted I was wrong, so I got a copy of the paper, and we went through it, eventually landing on an ad for pants from another local store.
Exasperated, the customer glared at me and said, “In my newspaper, the ad was for this store!”
– Edward Oppenheimer
In my life I’ve heard people make statements about the Bible that sound just like that. Case in point, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” The irony is threaded throughout the Word, for God is helping those who are incapable of helping themselves.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Oh, the insurmountable list of things we can’t do for ourselves.
Give it some thought.
Gary