Bearing One Another’s Burdens, Part 2

“Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one will bear his own load.”  Galatians 6:1-5

Have you ever been deceived - believing you were really somebody when, in reality, you were really nothing special? Hurts, doesn’t it? We all have that compelling desire to be noticed as someone important, special, or enviable.       

Case in point - Charles Colson. It took a prison cell experience to convince the top White House executive that all his achievements and successes and positions of power were really not what he had thought them to be. He was deceived!

Having that deception shattered was a traumatic experience, but one out of which came a reborn servant of Jesus Christ, whose life is impacting this nation and this world for Christ. The world may still see him as an ex-con, a man obsessed with his prison experience, someone not really to be trusted.

Is our perspective of our importance based upon what others think or upon what God thinks? Jesus said, “he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it”
(Matt. 10:38-39).

A right perspective on yourself will help you bear others’ burdens.