I Go With You

If you had to choose between being able to do something by yourself or needing someone else's help, what would you choose? As humans, we like to be independent and we don’t like having to ask someone else for help. This desire is developed at a very young age. Children love to say, “I did it all by myself.” Their first step all by themselves. Their first time in their own bed all by themselves. The list goes on.

This pattern continues into their youth. Teenagers are all about being independent, trying as hard as they can to avoid needing their parents’ help. Their first time driving all by themselves. Their first job all by themselves. Their first date all by themselves. But why? Why do we always need to do it “all by ourselves?” The simplest answer is we’re too proud to ask for help. Being in control of our own life makes us feel safe and secure. We feel good about ourselves when we are able to do things by ourselves. This can become a problem when we refuse to even let God help us. He offers us eternal life if we give our lives to him, but we are too proud to accept his help. We are convinced we don’t need him, so we try to live life without him.

Once when I was about three years old when I was at a water park with my family, I was going on a giant water slide with my mom. I would sit on her lap and we would go down the slide together. This was fun at first, but I started to wish that I could ride the slide all by myself like my brother and the other kids that were older than me. The next time my mom and I were standing in line to go on the slide, I looked up at her and said, “I do it myself.” My mom was a bit uneasy about it, but she let me do it anyway. The lifeguard at the top of the slide had her go down first so she could catch me when I reached the bottom. As I slid down the slide, the strong current over powered my little three year old body and flipped me onto my stomach. The whole way down my face was forced under the water. When I finally shot out of the slide at the bottom into the pool,after coughing up all the water I had inhaled, I looked at my mom and said, “I go with you!”

This is similar to most of our relationships with Christ. Just like me at age three, we have to learn the hard way that we cannot make it through this painful world without God’s help and guidance. The slide is our lives, and we are wanting to be the masters of our own lives like I was at three. Jesus waits at the bottom of the slide, patiently waiting of us to realise that we need him. Then we finally reach the end of our rope and come running back to him.

The Bible tells us that, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble, ( Psalm 46: 1). Walking through this life without Christ is practically impossible, but we have to discover that ourselves before we’ll believe it.

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