In the Apology, Socrates rebukes the Athenians for caring more about their pleasures than they cared about virtue:
"… it does not seem like human nature for me to have neglected all my own affairs and to have tolerated this neglect for so many years while I was always concerned with you, approaching each one of you like a father or an elder brother to persuade you to care for virtue..."
It isn't "human nature". Only a God-besotted pastor or mother or father or apostle or believer in Jesus can be that concerned with the health and wealth of the soul of another. When God infuses human nature, we care long and we care hard.
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An excellent reminder that the life we live in the flesh is lived by faith in and through the Son of God. We can do nothing of ourselves. It is the Spirit of God that lives through us to be a blessing to others.
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