Psalm 25:4-5
4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord;
teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation
for you I wait all the day long.
As modern people in modern America, it is rare for us to willingly ask for guidance or correction the way David is in this Psalm. We are encouraged to put our heads down and do whatever we think is best, forget about who else might be affected along the way. There’s a strange disconnect because we logically know that asking for help is the best way to learn how to do something that we don’t know how to do. Unfortunately, asking someone for help would show our soft underbelly of vulnerability and that we weren’t born with intrinsic knowledge of everything!
Thankfully, we have the internet! Where strangers, in blog posts and YouTube videos, can teach us things we feel like we should already know, and we’re never required to reveal our shortcomings to the people around us. I’m here to tell you that this is no way to live, and further no one ever asked you to do this to yourself.
For our purposes here, let’s look at our spiritual lives. Growth rarely comes when we hide ourselves away. Instead of keeping our heads down we need to look up and ask God to lead us. The God of our salvation is deeply invested in your life and wellbeing, and for some reason this is amazingly easy for us to forget.
Instead of barreling through life just doing our best, what if we sought out the paths God laid before us? This will take investment in prayer, time in the word, and maybe, just maybe, asking someone a little further down the path of faith for help. We may have times that we feel lonely but none of us were called to walk this path of faith alone.
It’s okay to ask for help.