To ask for help from others can be an admission of one’s inefficiency to fulfill a certain task, or achieve a particular goal. It takes courage and humility to ask for help, especially in our world characterized by competition, and where man is defined by his competence and usefulness. If you ask for help, you can be perceived as weak and dependent on others. But asking for help can also be a manifestation of the person’s desire to improve the little that he has!
When the father of an epileptic child ask Jesus to help the little faith that he has so that his child may be healed, Jesus helped him to grow his faith. His child was healed. When the disciples asked Jesus to help them understand why they were not able to exorcise the demon from the child, Jesus helped them to understand that tasks are best fulfilled when done with prayer and fasting. The disciples understood. Jesus is truly generous in lending help.
Asking for and giving help facilitate the development of relation between persons that leads to the formation of a community, and improvement of its resources. When one helps the other, they both ceases to be others with one another. They become friends, whose weaknesses and strengths become known to each other. Such knowledge is used not against a friend but for their mutual improvement. The little things, ideas, intelligence that each friend has, remain little if kept for themselves alone. But if placed together, their assets expand, so as their relationship.
Today, we might be undergoing difficulties, painful life experiences, or perhaps we lack or miss something in life. But remember this, we do not have to suffer by ourselves. Don’t punish yourself. Ask for help. You will be surprised to discover how life can be bearable; how our inadequacies can be filled-in by a help from a friend – by the help of Jesus at work through your friends.
If you need help, do not hesitate to ask for help!
