Struggling Without Calling Upon God

In Mormon 5:2, we are told that the Nephites, now deeply entrenched in iniquity, and at war with the Lamanites, "did struggle for their lives without calling upon that Being who created them."

This strikes me as being incredibly foolish, but not much more foolish than we are when we also "struggle . . . without calling upon [God]." Sure, God's miracles are either few and far between or so subtle as to remain unseen, but hey, it couldn't hurt to ask, right?

In life, we have to struggle. That's just a given. Everyone has to struggle. But we don't always have to struggle alone. God will, sometimes, perhaps often, come to help us, but only when asked. No matter how much we struggle, no matter how much He wants to help us, God will, respectfully, wait for us to ask for His help.

Granted, there are times when we are better off without His help, and He lets us move forward on our own, usually either to help us gain strength or to let us prove to ourselves how strong we already are, but at those times when we really need His help, and it's important that we get it, He will help us, if, and only if, we ask Him to.

Let us never be so foolish that we forget to ask for God's help. True, we don't always get it, even when we ask, but it doesn't hurt to ask. It can only hold us back it we don't. I don't want to struggle, but I especially don't want to be foolish enough to struggle without calling upon God.