We live in a time when everyone gets a trophy.
Why do we feel the need to give everyone a trophy?
To avoid them feeling bad? To avoid feeling bad ourselves?
If we give trophies to the losing team to help them avoid feeling bad, we also rob them of the joy that comes from success.
If we give trophies to the losing team to help them avoid feeling bad, we rob those who succeeded of the joy of winning.
Sometimes we give trophies to keep ourselves from feeling bad.
Christians are giving Matthew Mcconaughey a trophy for thanking God for bringing him to the place he is in his life. I think they are giving him a trophy to make themselves feel better.
He doesn’t deserve a trophy for praising God.
Mark 7:6: He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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