You hear in the field of education the term “learned helplessness”.  What does that phrase mean to you?  For me as I reflected upon my own life, I couldn’t help but recall about the time I hit sixth grade, giving up on math. The teacher made fun of me, the students laughed!  I gave up!!!  Later as an adult, I discovered  that I really could do most math.  Maybe I wasn’t brilliant in math but I could do it and actually revel in my own successes!

From another perspective, as Christians, how often do we claim that we know the Christ and all about his saving grace and then stress when hard times hit. That’s what the world tell us to do in response?  This is where my mind went when I thought about “learned helplessness”.  The world tells us to grab a pill, dull our senses, avoid reality in the depths of a video game, because it is all too much and I cannot help it.

I have found that the greatest response to things I feel I cannot handle is not to react in the vain of helplessness, feeling there is no way out, but to delve into God’s word to find my help.  “By the God of your father who will help you, And by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above”…Genesis 49:25.  God is my redeemer and my savior, whom or what shall I fear.                                     God Bless you today,  CSW