{"id":2091,"date":"2003-12-26T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2003-12-26T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2003-12-26T09:50:09","slug":"notes-on-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/notes-on-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Self-Reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being self-reliant robs others of the chance to demonstrate love through supporting you<\/p>\n<p>Self-reliance is thus self-ish<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI pride myself on my self-sufficiency<\/p>\n<p>It keeps me from viewing people as a means to succeed; from taking advantage of them for their THINGS<\/p>\n<p>But giving and sacrifice are the foundations of love; so I prevent others from loving me<\/p>\n<p>Then am I surprised that I often feel unloved? Certainly I am loved; but I don&#8217;t allow others to show that to me<\/p>\n<p>I insist that I be the one to sacrifice, that it is &#8220;no problem&#8221; to be next in line, and in fact it is not, because I love, which is only because I have sacrificed. When can others love?<\/p>\n<p>A fundamental part of loving is allowing others to love. Jesus allowing Mary to wash his feet with perfume; allowing people to host and entertain Him; and how we must allow God&#8217;s sacrifice of His Son to be done so we can be reconciled to Him.<\/p>\n<p>The religious backbone: In order FOR God to so love the world, He HAD TO give his one and only Son&#8230;it&#8217;s not like He had to pay the sacrifice someone more powerful, but rather had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryskamp.org\/brain\/design\/convenience_less_value.html\">sacrifice himself in order to love<\/a> those He sacrificed for&#8230;is there more solid theology that backs this up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being self-reliant robs others of the chance to demonstrate love through supporting you Self-reliance is thus self-ish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[234,235,233],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-love","tag-sacrifice","tag-self-reliance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-xJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}