Share and Share Alike   Scripture Reading: Galatians 6:2 - 3

“Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself, you are not that important."  

As children of God, we all have come to the great burden bearer our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We remember His invitation to anyone, anywhere, going through absolutely anything that they can come to Him and exchange their heavy burden that is wearing them out and beating them down. When they give that burden to Jesus, His promise is that He instruct them and will give to them a burden that is light and will be easy to bear.

Yet in today’s text we are reminded that there is another law, it is that of the One and the same our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Even though we may have given our burden or heavy load to Jesus, we are called to be those who, ‘Share and Share Alike’. As we journey up the pathway of faith in God, He is calling us to look for those whom we can confide in. A person that we can trust open up our heart and life to, knowing that when we do it will be between them, God and the floor.

This partnership with another is not to be a one-way street, but as you share your burden with that other person, they too will feel free to share their burdens with you. None of us are too important, or have progressed so far along life’s pathway that we are not in need of such an open relationship. In fact, I think that the closer we come to Christ, the more willing we will be both to see the needs around us and share our hearts with others in a way that builds up and encourages.

Perhaps this also is part of what Jesus meant when He told us to take up our cross daily and follow after Him. Making ourselves willing to serve and not be served, to pick up the basin and towel when many others walk by, to bless and not to curse, to choose to walk in the pathway of humility before God and man, and as the hymn writer penned – ‘To trust and obey, for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus’. As we enter into this kind of sharing, we will discover that rich life for which Jesus our Lord came, lived, died and rose again to provide.  

Prayer Father how thankful I am for the great burden of sin that was lifted because of the cross of Jesus Christ, I have been set free. Make me more like Jesus I ask: living, loving, caring, sharing and willing to bear one another’s burdens, so fulfilling the law of Christ I pray in His holy name.  

Memory Verse: 1 Corinthians 12:27 “____ of you __________ are Christ’s ______, and _____ of you is a part of it.”