Asking for Help

The side button on my phone has decided that it wants to ignore my double clicking. Curiously, after a few futile attempts to will it into submission, my phone decides to make a SOS call, prompting a frantic scramble to cancel the “emergency” that my phone has determined for me.

I think a lot of times we don’t know when to ask for help. I see it already in my 1-year old niece. She often initially refuses help, determined to go at it on her own. After a few tries on her own, when asked again if she needs help, she will reluctantly signal that yes, she wants that help after all.

It’s necessary to be reminded that we have to get help. As much as I think “I got this,” each time I see my inability to do exactly that or stumble into sin, I have to relinquish my pride and turn to a God who has put into motion our rescue ever since man decided that he could go at it on his own, becoming like God. “Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!" - Psalm 30:10