Seeking Help

It’s almost a natural instinct within us to want to do stuff ourselves or by ourselves. We want to feel the satisfaction of accomplishing something on our own, in our own power. 


As I attempt to write this my daughter is doing exactly that. She is trying to accomplish something in her own power that she’s not ready for yet, wiping. While I encourage all of her efforts and am thankful that she is motivated, I have to make sure the job is completely done and done the right way or it could hurt her in multiple different ways.


Just like a small child we cannot do everything on our own. We need help in a multitude of different ways and not just here or there, but really throughout our whole day. If we don’t ask for and receive help we could get hurt in multiple different ways.


The main way that we need to reach out and seek help is by praying to God. Praying for wisdom and guidance. Praying for patience and peace. Praying for healing and miracles. Praying to see if and who we should reach out to for additional help.Ultimately praying for help with overcoming sin, falling short.


This is something we NEED to do. The perfect person in the whole world needed this and was a great example of it. 


Matthew 26:36-43 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.”

 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. “Couldn’t you men keep watch with me for one hour?” he asked Peter. “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

He went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.” 

 When he came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.


Hebrews 2:18 Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.


Jesus was tempted by sin, just as we are. How does He tell us to overcome it? To expect it and pray. We can overcome it just as He did, with the power of the Holy Spirit, His Spirit, inside of us and a prayerful connection to our Father.


We don’t have to live life alone, on our own. We have a loving God who is more than willing and ready for us to ask and receive His help through all of it.

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