5:26-6:2). And is not a man, the consequences of whose conduct are going on, working, and laying up wrath against the day of wrath, to be pitied? L. Cuyler, D. D.)The blessedness of burden bearingF. It includes the whole catalogue of conditions, and influences, and causes, that weigh men down, and hinder them, when they are endeavouring sincerely to live lives of rectitude. 2. But suppose, instead of being a lion, it was Satan in the form of an intemperate appetite, worse a thousand times to the man than any real lion of the desert? As if both of the statements could not be true! If you had only heard him crow, and seen him clap his hands, it would have done you good; and oh! It is taught by our life work.5. Just then, as I was sitting on the floor, one of the native Christian women took hold of me, and pulled me over against her and said, 'Are you tired? They say, that if a piano is struck in a room where another stands unopened and untouched, who lays his ear to that will hear a string within, as if touched by the hand of a shadowy spirit, sound the same note; but more strange how the strings of one heart vibrate to those of another; how woe wakens woe: how your grief infects me with sadness; how the shadow of a passing funeral and nodding hearse casts a cloud on the mirth of a marriage-party; how sympathy may be so delicate and acute as to become a pain. But there are others which neither they nor we can bear for purposes of mutual help. )Mutual help in burden-bearingE. To be in relationships means this; to be in a family as head or member, to be in business, to be one of a social and civilized community, implies it. It may weigh thee down to perdition. Gambling and cheating are only interchangeable terms. We are to render them as much help as, by sympathy or otherwise, we may. I went to her house every day and read a chapter to her from the Bible. Personal sorrow. Each man proceeded to display his sorrow. "We have, sir; we have!" h�bbd``b`��@�� H0_��w�$/c`bd� R��H��ϸ�'@� z�� Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. (1)Not being ministered unto,(2)but in ministering; which is(a)to lighten our own burdens and(b)to lighten others, so that they may fulfil the law of Christ.(S. We don’t know who wrote it. "And I," said another boy, "thought of a poor old woman, whose eyes were too dim to read. Then it was that the breath came back, and the child, sneezing, showed that life was returning to it. (1) This teaching forbids all moral indifference to others. But is any fever of the body so pitiable as the fevers which come upon the soul? A man rejoicing to-day may be smitten down by a fell disease tomorrow. W. Beecher.But it will be objected, "Are we not commanded to abhor that which is evil, and to cleave to that which is good?" Beecher. I am thankful that in London you have your Samuel Morley, and other faithful servants of the Lord, who rejoice to be God's switch-tenders, to turn the needy, and the tempted, and the young into paths of sobriety, prosperity, and blessing. Life is a magnificent thing. The poor law of Elizabeth was the direct outcome of the suppression of the monasteries. One asserts a Christian obligation, the other states a solemn fact.I. It fitted Him for the ministry of solace. A waggon comes up, and the kind-hearted owner calls out, "Friend, you look tired. Do you not know that in life, sometimes, the breadth of one inch in a railway truck determines whether the cars shall go over the embankment or on the straight track — just the pull of a switch one inch. said he, "I feel with all my heart and soul." The two statements of my text are perfectly consistent. It must pervade all parts of the heart. Genuine Christlike sympathy must be practical. They have strong passions, but no sympathy. Is it the sudden disgust which arises, which ought to be momentary, and which is designed to put us upon our guard, and to inspire us with self-defensory power, till we have time to lay our course more deliberately? — for to reprove when the little one is already quivering with dismay at the mischief it has wrought, is sheer cruelty. You would run to rescue a man from an outside lion: will you not do anything for a man who has one inside? It forbids severity and unnecessary blaming. Pearson, M. These boys said nothing, but the teacher saw by their looks that they thought he was mistaken. It is a spirit of compassion and hopefulness excited in view of men's failures and moral obliquities, rather than a spirit of fault-finding and criticism.I. We need only to vary this thought a little to make it apply to our requisitions in social intercourse. If a man does not believe, when he has done wrong, that he is in the wrong, it is perfectly right for us to apply the rule of judgment to his case, and convince him of his error; but we are not to be stern, nor harsh, nor severe, but gentle, sympathizing, and all-loving and helpful. Is not that a better way of hating disease than the other would be? Phelps. As if a man carrying a burden for which he is especially responsible, might not have it lightened somewhat by one who walked by his side and helped him! The Cyber Hymnal. I shall not merely be sorry for his bereavement, but I shall feel that the bereavement is my own. We may sympathise with the penitent sinner, if the providence of God has placed us in such a position as to minister to the wounds of a stricken conscience, by encouraging the confidence of those who would repose it in us, by hearing their griefs and troubles and by leading them to Him who alone can heal the ravages of sin and speak peace to the troubled spirit. W. Beecher. 3). We may sympathise with poverty, either by actual relief of want and destitution, or by the better method, where it is possible, of procuring for them the means of earning an honest livelihood. It is, generally, such a course of conduct towards our fellow-men, as shall enable them more easily to carry and manage their infirmities and troubles. )The blessedness of sympathy and the vice of selfishnessA. Just then, as I was sitting on the floor, one of the native Christian women took hold of me, and pulled me over against her and said, 'Are you tired? 6, 10). Each has found the recompense of the reward; as we have borne the burden of others, we have borne our own more bravely.(E. )Charity organizationCanon Miller.Let us organize against professional beggars and impostors, but let us not organize almsgiving out of the Church as if the whole question were to be solved by the workhouse. We are to render them as much help as, by sympathy or otherwise, we may. It is only needful that I come to regard any one of you as a brother; and when he loses a kinsman, I shall lose a kinsman. Every man has a burden distinctly his own.5. Such a voluntary exile is not often sought or found by most of us. Wordsworth. It must not be enough for him that his heart yearns at the tale of calamity, and that he is ready to employ his money and his time in lightening the pressure of which he has been told; he must see to it that he have part in the bearing, as well as in the relieving of the calamity.(H. Many a man has been sorry afterwards that he has admitted the curious into the privacy of his thoughts. Weak goodness needs encouragement. She thanked me so much, was so greatly pleased, that I mean to keep on doing it for her." And so our happiness is enlarged only as it enters into the enlarged heart. 2. EACH IS TO BEAR THE OTHER'S BURDEN.1. The other says, "I hate it; but I am going to work to morrow morning, with my whole force, to drain that marsh." Here St. Paul says, "Bear ye one another's burdens"; and in the fifth verse of this same chapter, be says, "Every man shall bear his own burden." "Give us," you are ready to say, "pictures or descriptions of distress; expatiate upon the miseries by which numbers are oppressed; and move our feelings by a touching tale of human grief; but as to wishing us to make the wretchedness our own — that we should labour for its alleviation, just as though it were pressing upon ourselves — that is altogether beyond nature, and its possibility is but the fiction of an exaggerated theology!" You tell me, for instance, of unfortunate captives who have fallen into the hands of cruel taskmasters. PERSONALITY. The affair was hushed up, and things went on to outward seeming very much as before. We are told that one day, in a fit of insanity, his sister killed a member of their family. All are in jeopardy. It is an inspiration of a lower kind. (Canon Miller. (Bishop Mitchinson. This sympathy and helpfulness should not be confined to troubles of "bereavement" — to trouble occasioned by "disasters," so-called; but should include all the affairs of life. If we have brought our sunshine into the life of others, if we have given of our comfort to those whose lot is less fortunate, we can enjoy the wealth with a new sense of His goodness who has made us stewards. (1)Not being ministered unto,(2)but in ministering; which is(a)to lighten our own burdens and(b)to lighten others, so that they may fulfil the law of Christ.(S. L. Cuyler, D. D.)The blessedness of burden bearingF. A scripture illustration of the bible verse Galatians 6:2. Promptly they came together, hoping that the exchange would lighten the burdens of life. K. Personal religion. I could not do such a thing. Christ taught the law of action by(a)His precepts,(b)His life,(c)His death.II. It must have long dwelt with you, until your habits of thought, your instinctive judgments, the expression of your face, the outlook of your eyes, and your very tones, gestures, and attitudes, are animated with it — yea, till it is the spontaneous and inevitable outburst of life in you. But so, too, conscience in a good man may leave you stirred up. A man may leave you unhappy, and yet be a good man. A friend of ours had the misfortune to break a valuable dish not long ago, and naturally enough was inclined to blame herself for her carelessness. Personal service. It is only needful that I come to regard any one of you as a brother; and when he loses a kinsman, I shall lose a kinsman. There is animal hatred, and there is Divine hatred. By as much as men are physically unfortunate, we have learned how to show them consideration and kindness. )Sympathy not separationH. (Canon Miller. If a man's heart is pervaded by Christian love, it is not hard for him to perform the deeds and works of Christian love. It becomes more marked, and the consciousness of it more painful, through the action of sin and suffering.4. Bear the load of thy neighbour's poverty, and let him bear with thee the load of thy wealth. For, to "bear one another's burdens," does not mean to take them off from one another's shoulders, but to help each other to carry them. Nature teaches us to bear the burdens of those we love. The same spirit must be enlarged in our treatment of men in respect to their interior state. We are to contribute to their strength and to their courage. I found them, and he dried his tears, and ran off feeling very happy." John A. Huffman, Jr. But the Christian Church is not to relegate all her poor to the workhouse; nor is the relieving officer the substitute for the Christian pastor and his Christian flock. You must fill your own heart with the trouble you would lessen. It tacitly forbids certain modes of action. 2. The brother who is peculiarly trying is to be borne with to seventy times seven, even to the measure of the law of Christ. "The trivial round, the common task,Will furnish all we ought to ask -Room to deny ourselves, a roadTo bring us daily nearer God?" — for to reprove when the little one is already quivering with dismay at the mischief it has wrought, is sheer cruelty. It has its reason and authority in our mental constitution, which is formed to pity.4. Have not I seen the horse enjoy his feed of corn when his yoke-fellow lay a-dying in the neighbouring stall, and never turn an eye of pity on the sufferer? (1)Not being ministered unto,(2)but in ministering; which is(a)to lighten our own burdens and(b)to lighten others, so that they may fulfil the law of Christ.(S. When, therefore, you go to a man, as a Christian and a benefactor, to bear his burdens, you must take into consideration what his nature and circumstances have been. Each must bear his own judgment at the last.III. Certainly; but are we anywhere commanded to abhor sinners because we abhor sin? )The difficulty of helpfulness arising from the suspicionT. Sedgwick.Amid all the profuse waste of the means of happiness which men commit, there is no imprudence more flagrant than that of selfishness. Personal responsibility. But so, too, conscience in a good man may leave you stirred up. I could not live with myself after committing a deed like that." In the times of classical antiquity, which our youth are taught to hold in admiration; in the days of heroism and splendid war, which poets have sung and historians have embellished, there were the degraded classes of the community, made to bear the burdens of the rest. Our individual burdens are not so heavy but we have some strength left to give away.2. Shall such renunciation go unrewarded? It is said that the wounded deer sheds tears, but it belongs to man only to "weep with them that weep," and by sympathy to divide another's sorrows, and double another's joys. A man rejoicing to-day may be smitten down by a fell disease tomorrow. Our individual burdens are not so heavy but we have some strength left to give away.2. H. Spurgeon.There is a gateway at the entrance of a narrow passage in London, over which is written, "No burdens allowed to pass through." It is a mockery and an insult to go to a man and offer him a tract when he wants a loaf, if you have a loaf to spare. Suffer the hasty word to pass in silence, without answering again. Is not he to be pitied who for his transgression has to bear the infliction of law, of public sentiment, and of his own nature? 1 as "overtaken in a fault." 1). ~ Galatians 6:2 NKJV ~ MORNING PRAYER / SCRIPTURE . so that it might be said to one of them, "This is your burden, and you must see to it," and to the other, "Help him with his burden." Sedgwick.Amid all the profuse waste of the means of happiness which men commit, there is no imprudence more flagrant than that of selfishness. Take an old gambler — or a young one, it makes no difference which; for they are both alike. When, therefore, you go to a man, as a Christian and a benefactor, to bear his burdens, you must take into consideration what his nature and circumstances have been. He never married, but spent his life in an affectionate guardianship of the dear one whose misfortune he made his own. said a little girl one day, while making her way through a blackberry thicket. But all the same it was there, a latent possibility, and it marked out a narrow pathway in which she would have to go softly to the end of her days. This is one of the first facts of which our opening intelligence informs us.2. )LinksGalatians 6:2 NIVGalatians 6:2 NLTGalatians 6:2 ESVGalatians 6:2 NASBGalatians 6:2 KJVGalatians 6:2 Bible AppsGalatians 6:2 ParallelGalatians 6:2 Biblia ParalelaGalatians 6:2 Chinese BibleGalatians 6:2 French BibleGalatians 6:2 German BibleGalatians 6:2 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)enemies.(W. Our relationship to each other, and our possession of advantages and talents, involve us in manifold responsibilities.1. Reduce their number to the limits of necessity.2. W. Beecher.Consider how you would act if these vices and monstrous passions, instead of being a part of the machinery of rational, intelligent, and responsible agents, were transformed in the actual forms of wild beasts. The minister of Christ should be released from temporal burdens, that he may give himself wholly to the burden of the Lord.II. We cannot pass through it without taking a load. said a little girl one day, while making her way through a blackberry thicket. Lastly, we have each a burden to bear in the hour of death.(M. They have strong passions, but no sympathy. Yet God knows the burdens of life are heavy enough without our adding to them. You tell me, for instance, of unfortunate captives who have fallen into the hands of cruel taskmasters. We may sympathise with the penitent sinner, if the providence of God has placed us in such a position as to minister to the wounds of a stricken conscience, by encouraging the confidence of those who would repose it in us, by hearing their griefs and troubles and by leading them to Him who alone can heal the ravages of sin and speak peace to the troubled spirit. We must guard against a judgment formed of men from the effect of their mind-action upon us, rather than from a consideration of their real moral character. 1). If God is for us, who can be against us? The minister of Christ should be released from temporal burdens, that he may give himself wholly to the burden of the Lord.II. Then you will be able to look at men in the right way. )Lightening others' burdensT. The burden of individual responsibility.4. In the general history of mankind, the maxim of the text, so far from being acted out, has been reversed; instead of men sharing or bearing one another's burdens, they appear to act upon the rule of laying them on each other's shoulders, with the view of getting rid of their portion of the weight. "For every man shall bear his own burden." H. We are commanded to sympathize with men though sinful; and to have patience with them on account of their sins. The burden of death.Conclusion: Do you carry an anxious heart, or a weary soul, or a guilty conscience? said a little girl one day, while making her way through a blackberry thicket. Why? Still less is education taken into account,6. What if it were sickness? Stacey, D. D.)Our individual burden often not the heaviestW. This is one of the first facts of which our opening intelligence informs us.2. W. It seemed doubtful whether the operation would be successful, and equally doubtful whether all this filial devotion would not be wasted time and worthless endeavour. )The blessedness of sympathy and the vice of selfishnessA. Our individual burdens are not so heavy but we have some strength left to give away.2. I could not live with myself after committing a deed like that." We are, as it were, a great army under marching orders. Each must bear his own judgment at the last.III. H. Spurgeon.There is a gateway at the entrance of a narrow passage in London, over which is written, "No burdens allowed to pass through." I think the bitterest reprehensions of evil which we hear, would be spared, if men would only reflect upon these things. The text is needed, then, to make that Christian which is simply natural, to change hard necessity into holy duty. Why, you have told me of myself! The shedding of sentimental tears will not suffice. We are to have a nice and tender regard to the peculiar circumstances of men — their external conditions. "Yes, yes," replied the solicitor, "I don't doubt that either; but I want you to feel in your pocket."(Foster. Marshall. His burden is not necessarily a calamity.II. It is, generally, such a course of conduct towards our fellow-men, as shall enable them more easily to carry and manage their infirmities and troubles. This is "Christ in you," and is probably the presage of Christ in your suffering friend, with increase of soul-strength, and abundance of consolation. If you consider deeply you will not think so, you will see that it is really the law of Christ — the highest phase of that law which rules the rhythmic harmony of the universe — that the true life of man is something higher than a life of individual isolation or of personal interest, and that to attain this you must give up your individual will, you must rise into a life which is your own, and yet not your own, and of which the highest expression must always be, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.". But we are to bear one another's burdens in order to fulfil the law of Christ. Because he has been trained to the very heroism of honesty. When men are so pervaded, it is not hard, but easy, for them to bear other men's burdens — to be unselfish and unselfishly benevolent. We are to have a nice and tender regard to the peculiar circumstances of men — their external conditions. Burdens of infirmity. H. Spurgeon.There is a gateway at the entrance of a narrow passage in London, over which is written, "No burdens allowed to pass through." Every human being brought to our hands in trouble is a messenger of God. We need the Comforter for ourselves, and we must personally look up to the Lord for His operations. Chris. More than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices, more than all ceremonial and observance, more than all philosophy, more than all morality, more than all religion besides. What cared the Roman citizen for the slave that went his round of ceaseless toil? For then we learn always that there are sadder hearts to be healed, and we feel ashamed of our own trouble in the presence of a greater, and as we minister to them the mercy of our God steals into our own souls, and brings the consolation we never knew before. Our estimate of human burdens is often false, (1)because some are burdens which do not appear to be;(2)because burdens are borne differently by different individuals.4. And if you go to the man who did that thing, and ask him if he did not find it hard to refuse the money, he will say, "It would have required omnipotence to make me take it. Every man ought at the first impulse of the evil to feel repugnance at it; but that is not the higher kind of abhorrence of evil. "Ah, lads, I see by your looks that you have something to tell me." St. Paul here appears to take it for granted that every man has a burden; and shortly afterwards he says that "every man shall bear his own burden." We must expand this same rule of judgment, and apply it to men's characters.If a man's understanding is darkened, and his conscience is perverted, we are to judge him accordingly.1. "And yet we do pass constantly with ours," said one friend to another, as they turned up this passage out of a more frequented and broader thoroughfare. They say, that if a piano is struck in a room where another stands unopened and untouched, who lays his ear to that will hear a string within, as if touched by the hand of a shadowy spirit, sound the same note; but more strange how the strings of one heart vibrate to those of another; how woe wakens woe: how your grief infects me with sadness; how the shadow of a passing funeral and nodding hearse casts a cloud on the mirth of a marriage-party; how sympathy may be so delicate and acute as to become a pain. Sleight. By sympathy bear their sorrows (vers. And Christian graces, as set forth in the New Testament, imply this atmosphere of love in the soul. III. I longed for a little rest. 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