A Lighter Load
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What are the weighty challenges of life that you need help to carry? Whose helping lighten your load? Whose load are you lightening? Whose burdens are you helping to carry?
We all carry the weight of life. We carry difficulties and hardships. Sometimes the weight we carry in life can be crushing. We all need help from time to time to carry the weight of our burdens.
The Apostle Paul encouraged the church in Galatia concerning the burdens of life. He wrote, “Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.” (Galatians 6:2-3, ESV).
As followers of Jesus, we are called to carry one another’s burdens. When those around us are experiencing the consequences of sin, we are to gently restore one another.
In a spirit of gentleness we are to bear one another’s burdens and by doing so we fulfill the law of love.
It takes humility to see that we are burdened and to see the burdens of others. Humility is required to allow others to help carry our burdens. We also have to look past ourselves and our own needs to help carry the weight of life that burdens others. However, this is the call—to humbly lighten one another’s load.
May we fulfill the law of love—the law of Christ by lightening one another’s load—by carrying one another’s burdens in humility.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Collect For Endurance: “Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the Cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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