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  • Bible,  Relationship with God,  U2

    Give up helping.. its not working

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    “Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady.” That is currently my favourite line from a U2 song. Its from ‘Stand up Comedy’ off  the album ‘No line on the horizon’. What I love about the lyric is how clearly it speaks to the part of me that wants to ‘help’ God. I have been interested in the correlation between the books of Eccelsiastes and 1 Corinthians. It seems to me that Paul must have been studying the work of Solomon as he wrestled with how to give the Corinthians feedback.

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