by\u00a0David Rupert<\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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I remember my first raise. I was working as a busboy and I got a bump in pay from $2.10 an hour to $2.20 an hour. It was a merit raise, given to me from my boss for a job well done. I was riding high, and my ever-wet rag wiped tables with new enthusiasm.<\/span><\/div>\n
God didn\u2019t get any praise that day. In my mind, I worked hard and I deserved that raise.<\/div>\n
But six months later I was laid off. Of course, I blamed God, forgetting the fact that I was told it because of my poor attendance and bad attitude.<\/div>\n
Dave Boller, who blogs at\u00a0Work4Christ<\/a>, strikes up an interesting conversation about Success. Just where does it come from? How much human effort plays into the equation? How much of it is divine intervention?<\/div>\n
\u201cMany of us have a tendency to take credit for our successes and to blame others for our failures,\u201d he writes. \u201cSometimes, people even blame God for their shortcomings.\u201d<\/div>\n
Boller snapped me back to attention with this. \u201cIt is our Heavenly Father who gives us our gifts and talents \u2013 our ability to produce wealth. When we leave God out of that equation, we start to believe in our abilities than we do He who gave them to us.\u201d<\/div>\n
Read the\u00a0rest<\/a>\u00a0of the article and join the interesting conversation\u00a0here.<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Rupert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where Does Success Come From? by\u00a0David Rupert I remember my first raise. I was working as a busboy and I got a bump in pay from $2.10 an hour to $2.20 an\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/70\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Where Does Success Come From? by\u00a0David Rupert I remember my first raise. 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