The illusion of the ‘self-made man or woman’

Morning: Psalm 69:1-38; Jeremiah 5:1-9; Romans 2:25-3:18

Evening: Psalm 73; John 5:30-47

Jesus himself said, “I can do nothing on my own.” In 1873, Frederick Douglass, wrote that there are “no such men as self-made men” because no-one is independent of the past and present ... and we receive what is best and most valuable either from our contemporaries or from people who came before us ... “We have all either begged, borrowed or stolen. We have reaped where others have sown.”  Any meaningful human future will be built not on individualistic ideals and accomplishments but on a deep awareness of how important we are to one another.