Does God only help those who help themselves?

Psalm 34:6-8
“The helpless call to him, and he answers; he saves them from all their troubles”

If God only helped those who could help themselves, then no one would be helped.

Matthew 8:1-3
“When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, ‘Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.’ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. Be clean!’ Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy”

2 Corinthians 12:9–10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Big Idea:
The prideful person is just a regular person, who forgot that they were a helpless person

Isaiah 25:1a
Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,

“If I did not praise and bless Christ my Lord, I should deserve to have my tongue torn out by its roots from my mouth. If I did not bless and magnify his name, I should deserve that every stone I tread on in the streets should rise up to curse my ingratitude, for I am a drowned debtor to the mercy of God — over head and ears — to infinite love and boundless compassion I am a debtor. Are you not the same? Then I charge you by the love of Christ, awake, awake your hearts now to magnify his glorious name.” – Charles H. Spurgeon

Isaiah 25:1b
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done wonderful things,
things planned long ago.

Isaiah 25:2
You have made the city a heap of rubble,
the fortified town a ruin,
the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.

Isaiah 25:3
Therefore strong peoples will honor you;
cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

Isaiah 25:4
You have been a refuge for the poor,
a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
is like a storm driving against a wall

Isaiah 25:5
and like the heat of the desert.
You silence the uproar of foreigners;
as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,
so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

The prideful person is just a regular person, who forgot that they were a helpless person

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