Blessed to be a Burden Bearer

Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah.
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.

You can’t get through a day without being touched by a weighty topic. Life seems to have gotten more serious, more intense. We load up with troubles as easily as we collect burrs from a walk in the woods. Cares and worrries cling to the inside of our sleeping eyelids denying us of true rest.

How will these problems be solved?

Who is able to help?

When will relief come?

Jesus promised us many wonderful things, but there is one promise that bolsters our faith in the midst of fallen reality. In this world we will have troubles, but take heart, Jesus has overcome the world. And like His true counter-intuitive way, Jesus does this for us as He undergirds us with His strength, wisdom, and love.

He carries us through this world, not away from it.

Why? Because this world, or rather the people in it, need to see and understand that the hope we have in Jesus is also available to them through Christ.

The two verses above remind me of when my children were young and their desire to help with big things. We’d be unloading the car after a major shopping trip and one of our kiddos would pick a bag too heavy for their small frame, but they were determined to help. My husband and I would watch and cheer them on as long as we could, waiting for the moment when reality prompted one of our sons or daughter to admit their need for help.

My hubby would pick up both child and grocery bag and carry them into the house. Somehow the child still felt important because they were holding on to the load even as they were being upheld by their dad.

The Body of Christ is to represent the “hands and feet of Jesus” in this world as we minister His Grace to those in need.

We can bear one another’s burdens.
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Why? Because we are being held in the everlasting arms of our Heavenly Father. 

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