Stop Trying To Do It Alone

So I got this assignment for my New Testament class. I’m supposed to write about what I have learned that week from my personal reading and from what we were taught in class. But I don’t actually know what to write about. I have all of these ideas floating in my head. I could talk about the superlatives and Moses and his conversation with God. Or I can talk about Moses and his interaction with Satan. Or I could talk about “worlds without end”. All are very good topics but I can only think of how to write the beginnings of them. I can’t finish any of the thoughts. So I guess I’ll give you the beginning of one of my thoughts and see where I can get it to go.

If you know me well then you know that I really like to do things on my own. I love being able to claim that I completed a project all by myself. And I hate asking for help. If I ask for help then I can’t say that I did it all by myself. So most of the time it doesn’t matter how badly I need help, I won’t ask for it because I have this hope that I can do it by myself. I’m not sure if this is how Moses felt when he had his encounter with Satan. Moses had just got done talking to God face to face and God called him his son. But he didn’t just call him his son. He used a superlative using the most supreme way that he can to claim him. Shortly after Moses had just been talking to God, Satan showed up and told him that he is only a son of man. Moses tried three times alone to get Satan to leave but he would not. Then he realized that he could not do it alone and said in Moses 1:21 “In the name of the Only Begotten, depart hence, Satan.” It was only when Moses called upon God that Satan left.

I think sometimes in our daily lives we forget to call upon God when we are in need of help. I know I do. When I am in times of struggle I think that I am alone. Satan is constantly telling me that I am in this alone and that there is nobody out there to help me. I forget that I am not in this alone and that I have the help of my Heavenly Father whenever I need it as long as I remember to ask. I need to remember to ask my Heavenly Father as well as the people around me who love me and want to help me. Once I learn that I will be able to conquer so much more.