'God helps those who help themselves.' Discuss this statement with reference to the marginalised.
‘God helps those who help themselves.’ Discuss this statement with reference to the marginalised.
In today’s society you always see people standing outside shops or on street corners collecting money for different charities to help people in need of our help. The statement of ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ Is in some ways true, in the scripture in the story of the blind beggar the beggar did not sit and wait for Jesus to spot him he shouted at the top of his voice even when the rest of the crowed tried to quiet him. This shows great faith and tells us that if you want help to do something about it, today people who help themselves are sometimes more well off than those who don’t help themselves. As the proverb goes “We do our best-let God do the rest” because if you do no study before and exam and just pray God wont help you pass it as you have put in no effort to begin with. When Jesus went into the desert the devil temped him three times one of the times the devil told Jesus to jump off the cliff and let Gods angels save him Jesus replied “Do not put our Lord your God to the test” so if you depend on prayer you are testing God. But if someone is too sick to help themselves then god may help them as they are unable to make the first move but we are told that God is for everyone so in my opinion I think that God does not help only those who help themselves.
