Doubt - SE StudentsSample

I Need Help Here!

Doubts are normal and your doubts don’t disqualify you from being a Christian and a follower of Jesus. You might need to hear this truth as well: it’s OK to ask for help. Faith is not the absence of doubts, it is the courage to keep following Jesus in the midst of the doubts. You might feel forgotten, ignored, and anxious and ask the questions, How long? Am I forgotten? and Am I alone?  But as you ask the questions, commit to asking for help. 

The author of Psalm 13 had three requests of God in verse 3. He felt forgotten, so he asked God to turn toward him. He felt ignored, so he asked God to answer him. He felt alone in the trouble of his thoughts, and so he asked God to restore him. As we express our doubts and our problems to God, we want to turn those into a cry for help, not just another complaint filed away. 

The person writing this psalm had been struggling with whatever he was facing long enough that it wasn’t his first time coming before God. This might have been a daily prayer he brought before God—admitting feeling abandoned, forgotten, neglected, and troubled, but still asking for help day after day and night after night. Today, you can ask for help. Ask God for help, but also reach out to some trusted people around you to explain the problem, ask for help, and seek a promise to hold onto. Before your time reading this is up, text a friend, your student pastor, a small group leader, a parent, or a caring adult in your life and ask for help. The church is meant to be a community of people who carry one another's burdens- but that won’t happen if you don’t ask for help.