Do You Carry the Burden?
I’ve always had a very strong spiritual side of me that could identify with people who were going through things. It’s one of the reasons why I haven’t watched the news in years. I hear what people are going through, the despair, the hurt, the loneliness, the brokenness….and I feel that, too. I joke that even holiday Hallmark commercials make me weepy!
My friends & family have always come to me with their problems. Their burdens became my burdens. There are many times when I couldn’t stop thinking about them. These issues would keep me awake at night, I would awaken from a dead sleep and they would be the first things on my mind. I would often feel that I cared more about people’s problems than they did!
Sometimes it would be my friends & family’s problems, sometimes it would be people I’ve never met, only heard about in the news, but I always felt their pain.
I’ve always wondered if there was something wrong with me because I feel others’ pain so deeply & so personally. In college, I decided against a career in Law & changed my major due to the fact that I knew that I couldn’t just “do my job” without getting too involved. I always saw it as a bad quality, a weakness that limited what I could do. Not only that, but it consistently lead to being taken advantage of. Why couldn’t I just be like most other people that weren’t burdened by others’ problems??
Because that’s how God made me! He made me the way that I am for a reason and a purpose!
I’ve come to realize in the last couple years that ministry is the only calling I could have! The amount of brokenness I have seen and been exposed to since I’ve been in ministry is incredible. God has opened my eyes to so much! He has put me in the position to help people, to lead them to Him, all while continuing to teach me patience, love, and gentleness.
It has taken me a long time, but I realize now that these are the burdens we are supposed to carry for one another. We should feel this way for each other. It is the brokenness that God wants us to feel for the world.
Whose burdens do you carry?
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ
Galatians 6:2
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