Ask and You Shall Receive

James 4:2b "Ye have not, because ye ask not"
  
There was once a father and his son on a camping trip. They were traveling on a ready made path to a camp ground. As they were making their way up the path a large rock blocked the path.  The boy desiring to be his own man though he would move the rock. He gripped the rock on both sides and tried pushing the rock but it never moved. The boy told his father It won't move. His father told him he wasn't using all his strength, so the boy tried again pushing with everything he had, but the rock still didn't move. The boy said father I used all my strength and I just can't move it. The father said you haven't used all your strength, the boy a little upset now grab hold of the rock and pushed, sweat rolling down his face, yet the rock never moved. The boy said father I used all my strength and still the rock didn't move. His father looked at him and said you didn't use all your strength, because you never asked me to help.

There are many stumbling blocks that will sometimes block the path that God has called us to travel, and like the boy in our story many of us will get frustrated, change course or even give up because we try to move these obstacles by ourselves. But the Lord is our strength in our time of weakness. He says we have not because we ask not, He and He alone is our ever present help and our strength. God called us to this journey not for us to travel it alone but for us to lean and depend upon Him to carry us through. Let us call on the Lord to aid us in moving the mountains which hinder our journey, let us use all our strength. We can have if we ask and only believe.