- Nerd. When it comes to technology, I’m so happy to be able to help with her phone and laptop.
- Carry. When it comes to lifting or carrying something heavy, I love being able to pick up, dig up, and move things for her.
While the nerd thing is good, I really enjoy jumping at the chance to carry things for her. I used to ask her to wait, but I’ve found out that there is no time like the present to help by carrying anything and everything for her.
I know that it probably sounds like a little thing. But it doesn’t matter because I want to help her in any way I can. Digging a hole for a tomato plant, cutting down overgrown limbs, getting her sewing machine out, putting the ironing board away. It doesn’t matter. I love helping her because I love her.
The Law of Christ
This is the way it works. Love motivates and energizes helping. And carrying each other’s burdens is one of the ways we are to help one another. And just in case you didn’t know it, we all have burdens that are just too big to carry ourselves.
Notice that Paul tells the Galatian Christians to carry burdens. Not a burden, but burdens. Plural. More than one. We each have burdens that we can’t carry by ourselves.
The command is that we are to be presently and actively carrying burdens with and for one another. We are to willingly help carry the burdens of other Christians.
And when we help, we’re to be sympathetic to their problems and pains. We’re never to look down our nose at them. They are our brother and sister, someone who Jesus died for. That takes away any room for pride in our hearts, minds, or words.
And oh, by the way, when we help carry burdens, there’s no guarantee that we won’t get caught in the backwash of their burden. We might also experience heartache and unkindness along the way.
We have a responsibility for others in our Christian community. Yes, I said responsibility. It’s not a suggestion or something that we optionally get to choose if we have enough time and energy.
And why? Because when we help carry burdens for one another, we are responding to God’s love for us. We are motivated to fulfill the law of Christ.
