Selfishness Clothed in Humility
If I find that, despite my selfish heart, it is a burden to ask God of things I desire - I don't mean necessities, like praying for a friend to heal from cancer, but rather things that I don't need at all - then it seems to me that it is not out of selfishness that I ask these things. I rather find these requests to be an act of worship and submission, which comes solely from faith. Thus, to not make requests of God for even little things is a form of selfishness and a rejection of faith, although it is often disguised as humility. How is it not selfish to respond to God's command to bring all our requests to him by not doing so? I see no other explanation.
posted by Chris Hill @ 1/02/2007 06:53:00 PM
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I completely agree that it is important to ask God for the things we desire, even the little things. God WANTS to bless us and I think he expects us to ask in order to receive.
"Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
Matthew 21:21 NIV
It is an act of faith when we ask things of God and trust that he will bless us. As a result, our faith in Him is strengthend AND God is glorified and proven trustworthy by human measure.
For me it is laziness. Prayer takes time and mental energy. So I guess that is selfishness with my time and thoughts. In other words, I agree with you.
Also, this entry was written very much like Pascal in style and content. I am very proud of you....
Yeah, I haven't read him in maybe a month or so. But I think similar to him, and like his thought process (thus, tend to align mine with his) so I guess that's where it came from. I didn't even think of that though...
By the way, I like using Mozilla. I just started using it on my own computer (I used it a few years ago and didn't like it, but this is the first time I've tried it recently), and I really like the spell correction stuff. That, in itself, makes it worth using over IE.
To clarify, I wasn't trying to imply that you had taken the actual idea from Pascal, just that your idea was exactly the kind of thing I would expect from him.
With clarity and powerful emotion,
Jordan
Thank you for your emotional clarification. My feelings are all good now.
Not that it is really on topic (I agree with you on the main issue), but also prefer to use Mozilla, mostly in how easily pop-ups and cookies are managed, and Mozilla doesn't try to install random programs on your computer without first asking you if you want it to.
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