Too often we are woeful children, like the ones we hear in the supermarket or discount store. The frantic mother pushes a buggy full of items and a screaming child who wants its way through the check out lane.

I heard a man describe a situation he encountered while he and his family were on an outing in a local park. His wife and he were seated on the ground watching their son play on the equipment. This made the mother nervous, and if the truth be known, the daddy too. Nevertheless the youngster, perfectly capable of making up his own mind romped on everything he could see.

There were three slides, each one higher, and the youngster tried each successive one. The mother was beside herself with worry, but the father would not let her rescue him from his adventuresome ways. Suddenly the man ran to his son's side as he yelled, "Daddy come help me, I am afraid."

The fear turned to glee as they both went down the big slide together. This is right much how God operates in our life. We must ask... and he is ready!

Want to know more?  Read on

Robbie L. Rogers

If you are like me it is hard to ask for help.

It maters not that I have a bunch of friends who are willing to drop everything to help me. Something in me, and I suspect many of us all want to say, "I can do this job all by myself."

It's weird you know.

One time I worked all day moving a big bush in our yard only to suffer greatly for the next week or so with painful back spasms. I mean I dragged the bush across the yard in back of my truck with a rope tied around it, gouging up grass and flower beds in my wake when I could've been through in a only few hours if I had called on my willing friends.

God told me to call them but I said in my machismo, "I don't want to bother them."

It's like we are afraid it means we are a failure... to need help, that is.

This is one of those things you hope you didn't teach your kids. Many of times I said to them, "Always seek out help before you start something if you know you will need help in order to finish it."

Psalm 32:8-9 says it all. "The Lord says, "I will guide you along the best pathway for your life. I will advise you and watch over you. Do not be like a senseless horse or mule that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control."

Me, I am too often the mule with a bit and bridle, plus blinders and more in order to obey His simple leading. This is especially difficult for Christian business man. There are too many areas that present difficulty and doing it all by yourself becomes a way of life. You don't have time to call in others much less rely on somebody else.

One year during an especially hard time, money was not coming in like we needed. We were desperate, and our daughter needed a prom dress. Back then there were no second-hand stores in our area. My heart was crushed from anguish. Her dress was in lay-away, the prom was two days away. I could not scrape up the money and the business was not coming in. Landlords do not take kindly to rent not being paid and the overhead was constant no mater what the business was bringing in.

A Christian friend who did not know our circumstances, money wise, called me outside the store and gave me a check for the exact amount needed for the dress. I wanted to refuse... I started to. 

Never before had I taken money from someone. 

I could support my family, after all I was "Self-sufficient." 

Then He said GOD told him to do it.  He said how he knew how I felt about things like that, but that I couldn't refuse God. 

I was never so humbled, but the remembrance of the situation still brings tears to my eyes 25 years later.

He knows our needs, just like we know our own children's. He feels our pain like it was His; just like we do our own. 

We are His children; He has accepted us as heirs to His throne; we are adopted and a brother and sister to Christ!  However, like us, because He loves us, probably more than we love our children, he will not leave us alone. 

We must learn our lessons, taking our lumps if required. 

We simply must ask for help, and He is ready and willing when we do.

Matthew 6:25-34: "So I tell you, don't worry about everyday life--whether you have enough food, drink, and clothes. Doesn't life consist of more than food and clothing? Look at the birds. They don't need to plant or harvest or put food in barns because your heavenly Father feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than they are. Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not.

"And why worry about your clothes? Look at the lilies and how they grow. They don't work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. And if God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won't he more surely care for you? You have so little faith!

"So don't worry about having enough food or drink or clothing. Why be like the pagans who are so deeply concerned about these things? Your heavenly Father already knows all your needs, and he will give you all you need from day to day if you live for him and make the Kingdom of God your primary concern.

"So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today."