The Deadly Self-reliance

<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;">The Deadly Self-reliance</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Relying on self has been humanly a good thing to do in the freeman's world,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">where independent spirit is highly praised, desired and exhorted to go after it </span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">for the sake of human excellency.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Who in the right mind can dare say evil things to this beautiful humanly goodness?</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The apostle Paul did.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">He considered self-reliance as deadly as a death sentence to his life.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">All kinds of hardships came to keep him from NOT relying on self for his new life.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">How deadly is this self-reliance to the new life?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It's as deadly as a piece of tiny leaven that</span><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"> leavens the whole lump of dough</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Relying on self is no less evil than picking the forbidden fruit for being like God.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font color="#444444" face="굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">That deadly.</span></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: dotum; font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 굴림, gulim, tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Lord, help us not to rely on ourselves for the new life you gave.</span></div>