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He tried again . I finally walked away , but he was still trying - he might still be for all I know . I thought the grasshopper was the perfect parable of how we try to make ourselves holy . We try and try and fall and fail and try again - all in vain . Only Christ can live a holy life and he has promised to do it in us .

What might be the reason I was talking about the grasshopper ?
I was trying to use it as an example of why we should never give up .