How did god change your life, what did god do that you didn't do for yourself
2006-08-24 08:08:44 · 13 answers · asked by martin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WE NEED GOD TO HELP US CHANGE OUR LIFE WE CAN'T DO IT ON OUR OWN WE CAN TRY AND ACT BUT ITS REALLY NOT CHANGED UNTIL WE HAVE GOD IN OUR LIFE TO HELP CHANGE IT
2006-08-24 08:11:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll be 32 in a month, and the one thing I've been learning about myself as each day goes by is just how far reaching my own weaknesses are, my own limitations. I can't do it all, no matter how hard I try, even when it comes to leading a moral life. I don't know everything, and I couldn't know everything even if I tried.
The awesomeness I have received from God is His Truth. The more I study and learn, the more I understand Him, and everything He wants me to know about this life, and more importantly, the next. The more I change my life to follow Him, the more things fall into place, find balance, peace, and even joy. I didn't have those things before. Yes, I have enjoyed successes in business and relationships and material possessions, but all of those momentary joys were brief and temporary. Nothing lasted. It left a deep hole in me that I could never fill. It was only after I learned my faith and devoted myself to His truth that life started to turn for the better. This is why I owe Him everything. He gives me the strength to keep going and to do better. And if there is something I don't understand, I go to Him in prayer, and I go to Him in church, study my catechism, and so forth. This is why everything goes to God. Everything I have, everything we all have, was first created by Him; it is why it all ultimately belongs to Him.
When we give God back the things He gave us, we aren't giving Him something that first belonged to us. We're giving Him what was already His. The catch is this: God gives us everything we need; our giving back to Him is to see whether or not we love Him. We can take take take, but do we give back?
Anyway, don't mean to blow my own horn, but I wanted to share that. God bless.
2006-08-24 08:40:50 · answer #2 · answered by Danny H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No I don't have trouble taking responsibility for my life, which includes my successes and my failures.
I do however realize that all good things come for God, and that when I fail it's usually because I take my life into my own hands without following the path that God set out for me.
So when I'm successful, I take responsibility for it and thank God for leading me there!!!
2006-08-24 20:40:43 · answer #3 · answered by Auntie Alex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The power of God Changed my life, without him I most likely would be dead by now.
I don't take all of the responsibility for my own success, I credit myself for seeking God, and Credit God for giving me the strength to succeed!
Through God and the Catholic Church, I saw some of the things that I was doing thinking they were making me happy, when all they were really doing was making me miserable in the long run. I could have NEVER seen that by myself.
There was a time when I would have said most of the nasty things that others say on here, I see my old self in them and it makes me sad for them.
I also know that there is hope for them, just like there was hope for me.
I don't think that being a Christian makes me better than anyone, we are all created equal in God's eyes, he loves us all.
Peace!
2006-08-24 08:15:33 · answer #4 · answered by C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. What it means is that God did things for me that I COULD NOT do for myself, since I don't have that kind of power. Nor does anyone else.
To describe what God did that I didn't do for myself is a difficult task. Suffice it to say that he reordered my heart, mind, and soul in a way that I never could have imagined and that I did not seek to have happen in the way that it happened. He removed all manner of ugliness (despair, rage, ignorance, pride, etc.) from all three of those "places" and replaced it with hope, patience, joy, faith, humility....
God did this. I know because I did not specifically set out to have it happen. God gave me what I was seeking before I even had a concept that I wanted such things. All I did was say, essentially, "Help," and God helped.
God always gives way more than what anyone hopes when we ask him simply and in earnest.
2006-08-24 08:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God takes our lives, and he leads us to him, he will show us and lead us where he wants us to be. If God takes you to it, he will get you through it. He made our brains, didn't he? He gave each and every one of us the "smarts" we need to be successful. The problem is, most people just don't care.
2006-08-24 08:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Or in George W Bush's case, because God (apparently) told him to invade Iraq, he has trouble taking the blame for his own failures. Mind you, he is living, breathing proof that 'Intelligent Design' clearly does not exist.
2006-08-24 08:19:25 · answer #7 · answered by JZD 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means that you recognize God at work in your life and that you are humble enough to give Him the credit wen it is due Him.
2006-08-24 08:11:14 · answer #8 · answered by zero 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's just it: no success ever came from ourselves anyway!
It was all God
God sent His Son to die for us; He loved us when we were unlovable; He will never leave us, and no one and nothing can ever take us away from Him
Not in a million years could we do anything like that for ourselves
2006-08-24 08:12:34 · answer #9 · answered by Ayumi 23 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is human nature to be lazy and irresponsible. human beings ought to make an attempt to no longer be like that. at the same time as parental involvement at a gentle age is significant, it isn't the basically aspect that determines if someone is to blame or no longer.
2016-11-27 19:21:56 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋