Valuable help

Friends,

The funny thing about self-help books is that they are based on a false premise. Somehow, those authors would have you and me believe that we can solve all of our own problems ... we just need to dig a little deeper, try a little harder, and pay just a little more. All of them have made an idol out of the one thing that we so easily fall into serving and worshiping: ourselves.

Psalm 60:11-12
Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is useless.
Through God we will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall tread down our enemies. [NKJV]

The Bible is often mistaken for a self-help or a self-improvement guide. While following the Lord's precepts will certainly make us better human beings, it is most definitely not a self-help book. If we pay obey the words in the plain and clear text, we will stop focusing on ourselves and we will only focus on the Lord. We will recognize that the help of man is truly useless ... even if the man is one we see in the mirror. We will acknowledge that Christ Jesus is our Helper, our Strength and the only One worthy of our worship and attention.

Be encouraged, Jose