Be Courageous: Ask for Help!

Every Thursday evening we have community meeting on the Africa Mercy Ship. This is when all of the staff join together to worship and have church basically. We had amazing worship. I was touched by the songs chosen to be played. Last nights speaker was the wife of the Chaplin on the ship, Diana. I was encouraged by her words. Help was her topic of choice but not that we would give help to those around us because we are all helping already... Mercy SHips is filled with helpers. She encouraged us to be the helpee. You know ask for Help. She then Identified how to go about the things that we are struggling to ask for help with. We have two people that are there to help us...God and our community. We have two situations that we need to ask for help with: when something is too overwhelming or too big for us to handle and when we think that we can handle that which is laid before us.
My heart was knocked upon...there isnt one huge area that I need help in but the little areas are where I find myself having too many of. I think that I can carry the small things, but I find very soon that the small things add up. A vision comes to mind for me... So you have this table of a bunch of small cans of food. Yes you can pick up one at a time and the load isnt too much, picking up two or three isnt a struggle either. So we think why cant we pick up some more... so we pick up some more not putting down or asking for help with any of them. The load becomes then too much to carry on your own, your PRIDE comes into play telling yourself that

YOU CAN DO IT! YOU DON'T NEED HELP!

your mindset is set that if you ask for help it is seen as a failure. God tells us in the Bible "himself that "I will never leave you nor forsake you"; so that we confidently can say. "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid."" Hebrews 13:5,6 Do you believe that God is your Helper? I had to ask myself this. And if I believe this then why am I picking up so many cans and adding such a heavy burden to my life when God is right there to help me. Right there to support me when I need to carry a can or two when its time to grow, and it still doesn't hurt to ask for help to get through those growth times. God wants us to trust in him in every situation. Be courageous: ask for help. Start with smaller things and lead up to the more difficult and challenging things.