Galatians 6:2 | Share Your Burden
2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
-Galatians 6:2 BSB
-Galatians 6:2 BSB
We live in a very strange world. I remember a time where it had to be emphasized that we should take up the mantle of carrying one another's burdens. While this is indeed an area that we can improve upon, I find a much larger issue is poisoning our world today.
Did you know that it is not a biblical virtue to be entirely self-sufficient? In fact, Paul seems to outright condemn the idea as he addresses the church as a body in 1 Corinthians. A hand cannot fulfill the function of a nose or a mouth. It would hinder the body if the hand tried to be fully self-sufficient. The modern day push for self-sufficiency is hindering this instruction above. Because we feel it is necessary to do things on our own, we don't even offer our burdens for others to carry. We deprive others of their ability to fulfill carrying one another's burdens.
What does this ultimately mean for the body at large? We understand that walking in love is a practice. One of the expressions of love that is largely talked about in Scripture is carrying one another's burdens. If we remove the faculty by which love is trained then we overall become a less loving church.
Now how does that impact the world around us? Jesus highlights how the world will know that we belong to Him by our love for one another (John 13). If we have less expression by which we show love and are overall less loving due to lack of practice, then our testimony dies out with it.
I see a ploy from the enemy to convince us that it is the more Christian thing to not burden one another with our burdens. The result of that has left a very lonely, depressed, anxious, and isolated church. Share your burdens that we may join together and carry them with you.
How can you help carry the burdens of those around you today?
Did you know that it is not a biblical virtue to be entirely self-sufficient? In fact, Paul seems to outright condemn the idea as he addresses the church as a body in 1 Corinthians. A hand cannot fulfill the function of a nose or a mouth. It would hinder the body if the hand tried to be fully self-sufficient. The modern day push for self-sufficiency is hindering this instruction above. Because we feel it is necessary to do things on our own, we don't even offer our burdens for others to carry. We deprive others of their ability to fulfill carrying one another's burdens.
What does this ultimately mean for the body at large? We understand that walking in love is a practice. One of the expressions of love that is largely talked about in Scripture is carrying one another's burdens. If we remove the faculty by which love is trained then we overall become a less loving church.
Now how does that impact the world around us? Jesus highlights how the world will know that we belong to Him by our love for one another (John 13). If we have less expression by which we show love and are overall less loving due to lack of practice, then our testimony dies out with it.
I see a ploy from the enemy to convince us that it is the more Christian thing to not burden one another with our burdens. The result of that has left a very lonely, depressed, anxious, and isolated church. Share your burdens that we may join together and carry them with you.
How can you help carry the burdens of those around you today?
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