When you are a child, you need lots of help. You need help with your eating, with learning how to walk, to talk, and to get along with others, just for starters.
When you are aged, you need help. You need help with your eating, walking from one place to another, and sometimes with talking.
During those in between times of those above, you can act and think fairly well, without help. The tendency is to be too self-sufficient. At times, you resent anyone trying to help you with anything. You are an adult and can do it by yourself.
You realize that at times you need help, and you need to help others. William Arthur Ward fittingly states this: “If you would be interesting, be interested; if you would be pleased, be pleasing; if you would be loved, be loveable; if you would be helped, be helpful.”
No matter what your age, there are times you can help others, and a time you need help. Pathetic is the person who does not seek help when needed. Wise are you, when you realize that some circumstances are beyond your ability to handle.
The psalmist gives words you need to heed in Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and strength. A very pleasant help in trouble” (NJKV). Since God is standing by to give you assistance, you need to go to Him first. So many times, you try everything you can think of, then as a last resort you turn to God. The first part of the verse reminds you, that the Lord God is the best “refuge” you can find. God gives you the “strength” you so desperately need in times of trouble.
Stop. Look up. Tell the Lord God that you need His “strength” and “help.” It is better to ask sooner than later.
