Those who habitually turn to God for help are aware of His constant care for His children. Those who turn away from God and look for help in other directions lose eventually what God alone can give.
In the Old Testament we read that Asa, king of Judah, "did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God" (II Chron. 14:2), for he restored to his people the true worship of God. Later, when enemies came against Judah, Asa prayed to God for help, and the enemy was routed. After this victory the prophet Azariah said to him (15:2), "The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you."
For many years Asa was faithful to God; but when an enemy again threatened his kingdom, he forsook his complete reliance on God and paid the king of Syria to help deliver him from his enemy. Still later Asa "was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign" (16:12, 13)
