It’s okay to not be okay. It’s not okay to stay that way. Self-sufficiency was never a part of God’s design for us. From mankind’s beginning, He purposed that we would be a people who needed help. Help from Him. Help from each other. To those He called to be in the family of God, He also called to live as the family of God in administering His care to one another until the day comes when He will welcome us into our heavenly home, and there will be no more burdens to bear. He calls, gifts, empowers, mobilizes, and sends the church to be the hands, feet, and mouth of Jesus to people inside and outside the family of God. I help you; you help me; we help others; we all look to God for help. That’s what God means to happen. Therefore, the smartest thing we can do when we find ourselves feeling overpowered, overwhelmed or overloaded is to ask for help. If it’s more than you or I can handle alone, that’s God’s way of saying He doesn’t want us to handle it alone.
