Bearing one another's burdens
Ray Ortlund Blog | June 29, 2012
"In many cases, we may, by the rules of the gospel, be obliged to give to others when we cannot do it without suffering ourselves. . . . We should be willing to suffer with our neighbor and to take part of his burden on ourselves. Otherwise, how is that rule of 'bearing one another's burdens' fulfilled? If we are never obliged to relieve others' burdens except when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens when we bear no burden at all?"
Jonathan Edwards, "Christian Charity," in Works (Edinburgh, 1979), II:171. Style updated.
tricia
June 30, 2012 at 03:55 AM
This post will forever change the way i view my meager attempts regarding burden lifting. Do we see those faces, how dignity is on display there? Forgive me Father i pray. yours in Jesus Tricia