God is forgiving, but we are POWERFUL

Amir-07

God is forgiving, but we are POWERFUL

Beloved reader, now that we've walked in God's shoes, perhaps we can better understand "God helps those who help themselves" from God's perspective.

God says, "You are always My beloved child, no matter what you think or do." This is God's nature, to be all-loving and all-forgiving. But note that God is NOT saying, "Because I love and forgive you, I am preventing or removing the consequences of all your free will choices from you." Think about that for a minute. What if God did in fact remove all the consequences of our deliberate choices? That intervention not only would prevent the learning of lessons, but it would also forcibly disempower those whose actual will is, in fact, to suffer. Granted, certain applications of will may be said to be perverse, but it's still THEIR WILL. Thus, you see, all God can reasonably say is, "I love you no matter what you do; but you may still suffer the problems you create for yourself of your own free will."

Surely, OUR POWER is not rescinded by God's love and forgiveness. God has created us as creative, free will entities. When it comes to being an entity of any kind, there are two possibilities: Either you've got power, or you don't have power. Which would YOU rather have -- power, or no power?

If you've got power, your actions will have effects. There are two things about that we do well to acknowledge:

01: Our creative power is non-existent unless our actions have effects.

02: Free will, our creative prerogative, is meaningless unless we can freely determine the KIND of effect we have. As free will creatures, and as truly creative individuals, we must be able to have ALL kinds of effects -- for better, and for worse.

So you see, it is in the CONTEXT of the effects we create that God works to help us. And therefore, it's not really true that God helps ONLY those who help themselves. It's just that God's help may not bear obvious fruit for those who don't. What is so is that God's earnest attempts to help ALL cannot be maximally effective unless we work WITH God. Therefore, God gets credit for helping those who help themselves. But God has to work even harder to help those who DON'T help themselves, and those efforts go mostly unrecognized. And that's the TRUTH behind "God helps those who help themselves."

dattaswami · Sweet Member Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 52 Gender:

God help deserving

Some praise the Lord as the kindest, who protects even the sinners and thus they say that Lord helps even the undeserving. If it is so, there is no place of punishment for the sins. Every sinner should be saved by the Lord and then the cycle of deeds becomes meaningless and invalid. Actually, this statement is made by deserving devotees, who project themselves as undeserving due to their submissive character and lack of ego. By this statement, one should not misunderstand that really God helps the undeserving due to His boundless compassion.

His kindness is always seen in His constant efforts to preach all the souls to uplift them from doing sins and to make them deserving through high devotion. A teacher always helps every student to read and understand the knowledge, but he will not help any student in the examination by giving answers secretly. The kindness of teacher is appreciated in his interest to teach every student but he is not appreciated in helping the students through unfair means.