Miracle

I heard a friend of mine is having trouble at work and in personal life. I read a story some time ago. I don't remember the details of the story, but I think my version will do well for delivering the message.

A devoted priest falls into a river and is being carried away. He thinks that he has spent 30 years serving God and the Church, and has spread the words of God among tens of thousands of people, God shall show him miracle to save his humble life.

Then he sees a boulder amid the running water 10 feet ahead. He thinks God has a way out arranged for him and so let water brings him pass the rock.

Then he saw a small piece of wood 5 feet away. He thinks that the wood is too small to keep him afloat, and he believes that God has a way out arranged to save his life ahead.

Then the river enters a forest where tree branches without leaves hang from their trunks into the water at the river banks. The devoted priest believes that God has a way out arranged for him and so let water drifts him away.

Water is picking up speed. The devoted priest gets washed down a 20-feet fall, breaks his neck and drown.

In Heaven, the devoted priest meets God. He is furious and questions God why not showing him miracle to save his life.

God replies, "I have given you 3 chances. The boulder, the piece of wood and the branches of the dead trees. If you hold on to any one of them, you would have been saved. Why didn't you see that?"

The moral: No one can help you if you don't help yourself.
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Morpheus says to Neo at the door of The Oracle, "... I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it."

From www.x-matrix.net/Scripts.shtml