Carrying Each Other

Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2

As Christians, we are called to carry each other's burdens. This doesn't necessarily mean that we are supposed to carry each others heavy luggage or help each other move (although those are very nice things to do). What Paul was telling the Galatians, and all of us two thousand years later, was that we are to be a support to each other. We are called to listen, to empathize and to help each other press on and through difficult circumstances.

We aren't necessarily trying to fix each other's lives or conversely wallowing in pity with someone; carrying each other's burdens means to be Christ to another person.

When Jesus met the woman at the well (John 4) he told her of all the wrong things she had done in her life, and yet he still showed her love, compassion and mercy. He forgave her sins - and then told her to go and sin no more. He did not accept the pit where the woman was living. Rather, he met her where she was and then showed her a way to get out of her pit.

As we are conduits of Jesus's love and grace to the world, we shoulder each other's burdens by empathizing with each other but also displaying the love of Christ by offering his grace as a solution.

We carry each other's burdens by sharing Christs love in all that we do.

The load isn't heavy, because Jesus is doing all of the heavy lifting.

Scripture

Galatians 6:1-10

Quote of the Day

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles

Question of the Day

When have you been the hands and feet of Christ this week?