Don't Stop Believing?

This is just a quick post that I hope makes you laugh and think. I just saw this video of some motivational speaker wanna-be and he demonstrates a great spiritual lesson. Watch this first, and then I'll comment further:

Yeah, that is where believing in yourself will get you. There are a lot of people (smiley J for one, Rob Bell for another) who are perverting and changing the Gospel to incorporate this same message. They will preach that God believes in you, has faith in you and you need to believe in and faith in yourself too. That all that you really need is to tap into your inner strength. Of course, this is ludicrous. God doesn't have faith in us because we are sinful people. We are frail, fallible and faithless. Christ however is quite the opposite. He is consistent, steady and faithful. He, not ourselves, is the anchor of our soul. What happens when we want try to believe in ourselves? We end up smacking our head against the proverbial wooden board. And to God, we look about as stupid as this guy.