Recognize your Need of Help: Asa (Traditional)

Asa is a king in the direct line of King David. Yet, Asa’s seemed to have been the achievement of self-security even to the point of raiding the house of the Lord. And why? To use the looted goods as a bribe the Syrian leader. Here, Asa’s limitation is met as one who was known as a decent ruler. His limitation is that when things get sticky and murky, Asa turns to his own wisdom and self-counsel to achieve a favorable result. That sounds a lot like us, people who often see God as a final possibility, rather than our initial line of defense in all things in life. How can God lead us back to Him?