Psalm 121:1-4 I lift up my eyes to the hills.

From where does my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.

Confession: I hate asking for help. Whether it is something big or small, there is a small voice in the back of my head that shouts, “you should be able to figure this out yourself!” Unfortunately, hermit caves never have good wi-fi, and life was meant to be lived in community with other people.

I know I’m not alone in my hesitance to ask for help. It is easy to feel like asking for help is a sign of weakness, or that it opens us up to judgment. When the truth is, most of the people we consider friends are more than happy to lend a hand. The author of Psalm 121 seems to be far away from the place that they want to be. However, even when they are far away, they know that they are not alone. Their help comes from the Lord who neither sleeps nor slumbers.

We all have those times when we need the reassurance that we are not alone, but sometimes all it takes to find that reassurance is reaching out to a friend. You just might have a problem that they’ll understand, we all need someone to lean on.

Over the past 6 months that we have been in this new location as a church, I’ve had to make a lot of calls and send a lot of texts asking people for help. And I’ve hated making every one of them. Some were emergencies, some were odd jobs that needed to get done, and some turned out to just be dumb questions. With every request I made, no matter how I felt about asking, people were happy to help with their time, tools, or knowledge.

If you’re one of those people that Restore has looked to for help, then thank you. We thank God for your heart for ministry, for this community, and for the Lord. Our help comes from the Lord, and sometimes that help takes the form of the people around us.