Lighten The Load

Your week has been exhausting. Saturday rolls around, and between getting one child to her soccer game and the other to a birthday party, you desperately need to get some overdue bills in the mail. Then the phone rings, and some- one from your fellowship tells you she needs you to take a dinner over to Mrs. Mitchell's house. You've never met Mrs. Mitchell, but her father passed away that morning. If you're anything like me, you feel compassion, but your first thought goes something like, "Isn’t there anybody else you could call?"

Serving one another isn't always easy, nor is it fair to expect that we can meet every need that crosses our path. To attempt to do so would be an overwhelming burden. In Galatians 5, Paul points out that our freedom in Christ allows us to serve others with joy. For Paul, service was not a weighty obligation but rather a natural result of walking in the Spirit.

Could some of the reason that we fail to sometimes see it that way is because we have filled the world with ministries people have started trying to accomplish some great thing for God. The mindset is to start a program, fund it, then try and try to get people involved. Many of them never go anywhere because people don't get involved. Could it be that people are just simply too overwhelmed with a sense of obligation to serve?

What if we just started loving the people God puts before us each day by serving them? If we could I believe we would discover the real power of one anothering.