Does God Help Those Who Help Themselves?

Does God Help Those Who Help Themselves?

Perhaps you've heard it said that God helps those who help themselves which is perhaps the most quoted verse not found in the Bible.

Well, I believe the phrase From the Bible is the Lord helps those who help themselves.

This is really an example of God helps those who help themselves.

What gave us everything for us to do things for ourselves?

God help those who help himself. The quote is sometimes said to be Benjamin Franklin's written in poor Richard's almanac. But an earlier appearance shows up in 1698 in an article entitled discourses concerning government by Algernon Sidney.

That's just a bonus fact for you. God helps those who help themselves is not found anywhere in Scripture just because it's not in the Bible. Does that mean it's completely wrong? I I don't think so. Yes, it's wrong.

Human Self-Reliance Is Not the Biblical Pattern

The Bible actually instructs us to rely fully on the Lord and not on ourselves. Proverbs 3 5 says trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 28 26 says whoever trusts in his own mind trusts in a fool.

And Jeremiah 17 5 says cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength whose heart turns away from the Lord. Jesus said if anyone would come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me in.

Humility Before the Lord

Isaiah 66 to the Lord says this is the one to whom I will look he who is humble and contrite in spirit and who trembles at My word. So God does not help those who help themselves. He comes to those who humble themselves and trust what he has said in his word when we understand the text.