Where Our Help Comes From

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a greater deception than “self-help.”

Or maybe I have.

But I think this particular deception tends to affect the women I love most in my life.

From a variety of different diets, to all the ways you can work out your body until it disowns you, to the myriad of possibilities when it comes to burning off your own skin or needling in your eyebrows with ink all in the name of being better, there’s a lot of “help” for ourselves out there.

But what’s even more dangerous than that are the lies the world feeds us when it comes to the way we think.

There are so many different philosophies for women, everything from hustle culture to the “stay at home and live off the land and homeschool your twenty-seven children or you’re just not woman enough” mentality.

Anyone see a problem with this?

Raises hand.

When we’re focused on what we should be, we aren’t focused on who we are in Christ. And not to say having a side hustle is a bad thing (shout out to the Proverbs 31 woman) or that civilization would end if we all started homeschooling (in fact, your kids should thank Yahweh that I decided to homeschool mine considering she used to wallop them with plastic buckets for funsies).

What I am saying is there’s a real folly in trying to live up to something God’s never asked us to in the first place.

And I’m saying this as someone who has repeatedly made that very same mistake.

My prayer? That we (me included) can keep laying it all down at His feet as we trust the Holy Spirit and God’s Word alone to be where our help comes from.