Depending on where you place the comma, this sentence could have different meanings: “Please, help me, please!” or “Please, help me please!” Our daily prayer to God should not only be to plead for help (cf. Psa. 46:1; Heb. 13:5-6), but we should constantly have on our heart the plea for Him to help us to please! Now, who are we to “please”?
Scripture tells us that the purpose of life is “not to please ourselves” (Rom. 15:1). The child of God has a responsibility to “please her husband” (1 Cor. 7:34), “please his wife” (1 Cor. 7:33) and to “please his neighbor” (Rom. 15:2). But these responsibilities are only to be fulfilled and measured as one fulfills his greater responsibility, which is – “how he may please the Lord” (1 Cor. 7:32), “to be well pleasing to Him” (2 Cor. 5:9; Phil. 4:18; Col. 3:20), “fully pleasing Him” (Col. 1:10), “to walk and to please God” (1 Thess. 4:1), “please Him who enlisted him as a soldier” (2 Tim. 2:4), “do those things that are pleasing in His sight” (1 John 3:22). When was the last time you prayed and asked God, “Please, help me please You!”? – DS