Devotion 4- I Need Some Help
“I lift my eyes up to the mountains- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and earth.” – Psalm 121:1-2
“No, I can do it myself!!” This is a phrase I often hear from the Kindergarteners that I teach. And like any teacher, I want my students to leave my classroom as strong, independent, critical thinkers. So, when my students give me the “I can do it myself” I usually walk away and let them be… but quite often… a few minutes later, their little hand will raise, or they will tug on my shirt and say…”I need some help”. I can point you to many a time in my life when I told God: “I can do it myself!!” This has happened in relationships, sports, my future career… I get in my head that I have it all under control and don’t need help from the big man upstairs or anyone else… thank you very much! It does not take very long, however, until I come crawling back to God saying..”Wow God I really really need your help. I can not even begin to do this on my own.” I was born into sin. I was a sinner from the moment I was conceived. I am totally and completely helpless to get into heaven on my own. I can not even have a healthy friendship with someone else on earth without guidance from God and His Word. When I sit down and think about it, I am completely dependent in every sense of the word. I am even more dependent than the Kindergarteners that care for each day. That hurts a little to admit, but when I am in points of the lowest lows in my life… it no longer hurts to admit. Rather it is an amazing comfort to me. I am dependent. But I am not dependent on another sinner like me, rather, I am dependent on a great and powerful God. I am dependent on a savior who died on the cross and took out my greatest enemies in a single blow. What an incredible God that I have that will never look down upon me and never refuse me for coming back to him day after day, after day… tugging on his shirt and saying “I need some help.”
Asking for help is always a hard thing to do. We would want to pridefully push through it all with our own power but always seem to realize that humbling ourselves often is the way to go.