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I need to make myself better

Every once in a while, as Iā€™m talking with a friend they will something like this, ā€œIā€™ trying to make myself betterā€, or ā€œI need to make myself better.ā€  When I hear this my heart breaks and I want to say, ā€œSTOPā€ (insert the zipper sound here) do you hear what youā€™re saying?   I want to remind them that, not one of us can ā€œmake ourselves betterā€.   Itā€™s not possible, if it were possible, would we have needed a savior?  Ummmm no, (just in case you were not sure of the answer I was going for).  But we do need a savior because itā€™s impossible to make ourselves better.  Only one person can do that, you guessed it, God. I want to remind them that, we are all human and even as a Christian we are not free from sin. By that I mean we are not perfect.  We may fall into a mud pit, we just donā€™t have to stay there.   Praise God for that!!!  We can ask God to lift us out of the pit and set us on solid ground.  The aw...