December 9, 2022 … Sharing the Load …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 343 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> … Please take the time to take in song and lyrics of blind Christian Performer, Gordon Mote, singing … His Strength Is Perfect … poignantly singing about how we Christians can rely on God’s strength, often thru fellow Christians, being there to lift us up when our own strength is gone.   

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Highlight Passage: … Galatians 6:2 [NKJV] …  

2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.    

… Paul shows fellow Christians (and us) that reaching out to help lift the burdens of others fulfills Christ’s law of love.                                                                           

Highlight Passage (Context): … Galatians 6:1-10 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches God’s truth about helping to carry the burdens of others.                                      

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Reference Passage: … Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] … 

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.  Don’t be discouraged, for I am Your God.  I will strengthen you and help you.  I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. 

…  God’s promise, thru Isaiah, that the Lord will provide us with His strength when we are weak. 

Reference Passage: … Matthew 11:28-20 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus models His helping Spirit by inviting any/all believers to yoke our weakness to His strength so that we can help others with their burdens.  

Reference Passage: … Luke 10:30-37 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus uses the parable of the “Good Samaritan” to show His disciples (and us) how we believers should help others who are burdened or weak.   

Reference Passage: … 2Corinthians 9:8 [NLT] … 

8 And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. 

…  God’s promise, thru Paul, to fellow Christians that God will provide the strength to help others.   

Reference Passage: …Philippians 2:3-5 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to take on the attitude of Christ by being willing to humble ourselves and help others with Christlike compassion.      

                                                                              

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Karen Pimpo … AT THIS LINK …   tells of a number of Christian women, all carrying heavy personal burdens, coming together to share their burdens by vulnerable sharing and praying for one another.               

And if my fellow Christian readers have taken in the linked song, performed BTW by a blind Christian artist, and then you’ve meditated on the Scriptures above, .. I pray we’re all convicted to do all we can - today and tomorrow - to reach out to do what is depicted in the attached photo; and that is to exercise Christlike compassion by lending our strength to lift others up who are carrying heavy loads in life.          

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for Your empowering grace which allows me to help others who’re carrying extra loads today.            

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, … to do all we can, Lord, to use Your enabling grace to help others lift their burdens today.    …  Amen

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