GOD HELPS WHO HELP THEMSELVES

"God helps those who help themselves" is a bit unfair to God. God helps those who help themselves -- among others. God tries, at least, to help everyone.

It IS fair to say that God's help is more likely to be effective if you are earnestly trying to do your part to help yourself. And sometimes, God can't EFFECTIVELY help a guy who's working too hard to UNhelp himself.

For example, a compulsive gambler. The most helpful and relevant way to help a gambler might be to advise him, "Don't gamble." Would such profoundly relevant advice be welcome in the mind of a person who was committed to gambling? As he sees it, he needs Divine intervention in the form of CASH. But, what good would it do for God to replace all the money a gambler wasted? Most likely, it would only intensify the gambler's bad habit, don't you think? Perhaps, when a guy is hell-bent on ruining his own life in such a fashion, and doesn't really welcome God's RELEVANT help, the best help God can give is simply to let him do what he wants, and hope he learns his lesson someday.

The true goal of human life is happiness -- happiness, peace, satisfaction, fulfillment, well-being, enlightenment. So, the best place to apply the principle "God helps those who help themselves" may be in the emotional/psychological aspect of life. There we find the most direct and powerful impact on personal happiness and well-being. And there can be no doubt that God is more interested in SPIRITUAL wealth than material wealth.

Accordingly, here's an interesting question: How does "God helps those who help themselves" pertain to the search for happiness? Unfortunately, in the happiness department, many of us are like a compulsive gambler: we do a better job at "hindering ourselves" than "helping ourselves." By indulging in negative thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes, people often thoughtlessly throw away whatever happiness they have, or would otherwise have.

Ask any gambler, "How much money can a gambler gamble away?" If he is honest, he will reply, "Any amount!" Likewise, ego-directed living is a sure way to go broke EMOTIONALLY. By living as ego recommends, a person can prevent ANY form of well-being, and erase ANY degree of happiness.

Obviously, if ego could deliver happiness as promised, this would be a happy, happy world. But every bet placed on ego loses. Don't you think? Or don't you?

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