Believers saved by grace through faith in Jesus have the power of the Holy Spirit to help us grow in actively bearing each others’ burdens. Because God has ordered the world so that we generally “reap what we sow,” he challenges us in at least three specific ways:
1. You should make a habit of helping people carry their burdens, no matter who they are or what they believe, but the category of people whose burdens you should carry most are fellow Christians.
2. If you are not giving at least some of your time and some of your money to share the burdens of the church where you worship, you are sinning against God, and this will yield negative effects in your life.
3. If you are helping to bear the burdens of your fellow Christians and also non-Christians, but you’re so tired that every day you dream of throwing up your hands and running away – you should not give up, because God will respond to your sacrifice with eternal blessings.
These results are only possible because God is living and active in the world, ruling over the results of our lives according to his own wise and gracious timing.
