SCRIPTURE: Psalm 3:8 (TM)
Real help comes
from God. Your blessing clothes your people!
STORY:
William C. Schultz shares: People need people. Laurie was
about three when one night she requested my aid in getting undressed. I was
downstairs and she was upstairs, and ... well. "You know how to undress
yourself," I reminded. "Yes," she explained, 'but sometimes
people need people anyway, even if they do know how to do things by
themselves."
OBSERVATION:
Admitting that we need help is hard for most people. We have
a “can do” spirit imbedded in our psyche. From an early age we strained against
the barriers of parental control. Every parent alive hears “I can do it
myself,” and then… that child becomes an adult.
If we continue to carry that attitude of self-sufficiency,
go-it-alone mindset, I-can-do-it-myself arrogance … we are going to be in
trouble. God didn’t design us to be on our own. God desires to be involved in
our life. God set up a set of parameters that should cause us to turn to him on
a regular basis for help and guidance… the source of our real help.
Spiritual maturity is the discovery of the truth about God’s
design for living. He designed us to lean on each other and on him. He created
us to function as a village – not as single independent people, but as a people
living in relationship with one another, caring, sharing, lifting … together.
“Sometimes people need people anyway,” even when we know how to do
something.
PRAYER:
It is obvious that we really do need you and if it isn’t
make it obvious to us today.
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