Read through the Bible in 2 Years: 2 Samuel 10

And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

2 Samuel 10:11 ESV

How often do I try to do it on my own, refusing to ask for help from others? Sometimes I need help physically – carrying something, reaching something up high, opening a jar. Sometimes I need help emotionally – someone to listen to me or give me a hug or speak an encouraging word to lift me up or a stern word to snap me out of a pity party. Sometimes I need help spiritually – someone to pray for me or give me wise counsel or point me to an applicable passage of Scripture. But I’m afraid that all too often I want to do it myself like my daughter is famous for saying a few too many times.

Like Galatians 6:2-3 tells us, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” (ESV)

Heavenly Father, I need Your help, Your guidance and strength, your encouragement and chastisement. But, Father, I also need help from others, the body of Christ here on earth. I need others to be eyes and ears for me. I need others to be hands and feet for me. I need others to speak truth to me. Please, Father, help me to be humble and to ask for help when I’m in need. Place me in a great company of fellow workers who labor together side by side for Your kingdom and glory. In the Name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.