Do Not Let PRIDE Cause You From Seeking Help When You Need It. There Just May Be A Hidden Blessing Tucked Inside Of The Help.

I have learned throughout the years and even more recent, the importance of not being prideful and to seek help when you need it. Pride will be your downfall if you allow it to be the master of your life. You have to learn to let false pride go out the window and seek a bit of humbleness in your life. To be humble means that you are letting your own wants and desires to be suppressed and allowing the help of others to touch your life. In a perfect world we would all be the giver of great gifts and forever exchanging gifts with others right? At one stage in your life maybe you had to be the receiver of these gifts and now you are in a position to be the blesser of others with the resources you have to allow them to be blessed. Experiencing both is a healthy place to be, for you now have empathy for those that are postured with humility. Never forget the days in which you were in a position in which you sought help. Were there not people out there that helped you out? If you answer no to that question then does that mean you were prideful and refused to seek the help of others? Only you can answer that. The other point being that maybe you were not prideful and the very people you reached out to had a deaf ear to your cry or plea for help. You know there are people out there that I have found to be "takers" and they just do not know how to give. Pray for them because they must live a lonely life. Even though they may be surrounded by people they can still live a lonesome life did you know that? There are others that heard your plea for help and chose to not listen and block it out. It meant that they would have to possibly put themselves out to reach out to another.
I have found out that the people you thought you can count on are not always the very one's that extend a hand to you. Did you find that to be true also? Remember that we are human and not everyone can read a person's mind or their thoughts and sometimes you have to just come out and ask another for their help. Once you ask then it truly is in the arms of the person you sought help from. They can either extend their hands and heart in your direction or they can fold their arms and ignore the plea. Do not assume that a person that does not respond does it out of lack of love. For if you cannot express the need to a person then how can you expect them to respond? You can't and do not expect to receive a response. Pride will hold you back if you let it do that. I was most recently in a situation in which I chose to let pride take a backseat and I sought help. I feel the worst that one could say to you is "no."  When you begin to seek help it is amazing that the one step forward connects you to another and so forth. The next thing you know the need has been met. It is called networking. Your initial contact then connects you with another and so forth.
I challenge you to seek help when there is a need in your life. Sometimes it comes in seeking prayer from another and other times it comes in the fashion of just plainly asking for help. It is not always help in the form of a physical need. It can be something as simple as asking one to make a phone call for you or to give a great recommendation on your behalf as a former employer in a job situation. Do not let the doors of creativity be closed in your mind for it is in the opening up of your ideas that a connection is made. Never tire of hearing the cries or pleas of those that are learning how to ask for help. Not everyone can be a pro at asking for help. Many may have never found themselves prior to this time in their life in a situation in which they needed help. You know why that is? It is because they were always the one that extended their hands to others and now they have to learn how to receive from others. Let your pride take a vacation and seek out those that are sensitive to hearing the voice of Holy Spirit. They will be the faithful that come to your side and help you keep your arms lifted up like Aaron did for Moses.
This is a great time for me to remind you of what I wrote about many times, the meaning of the letters in the word PRIDE:
Prancing
Right
Into
Destructive
Exile
Pride will keep you isolated and isolation is not good for you all the time. Just before I wrote this I was talking with a college friend of mine and how we laugh. We really do laugh and there is just something about this friend that brings out the silliness in me and at the same time creativity pops out too. Laughter is good it really is and it is OK to crack a smile now and then too.