Galatians 6: 1-5 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load.

Galatians 5: 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 5: 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Galatians 5: 22-24 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh along with its passions and desires.

Galatians 4: 19 …my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed by you.

2 Corinthians 7: 5a For when we came into Macedonia, this body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn – fighting without and fear within. But God who comforts the downcast comforted us…

2 Corinthians 7: 5b …by Titus and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you.

Galatians 5: 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”

John 13: 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 13: 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Martin Luther “They are the proudest of all people, and Paul says they think themselves to be something – that is, they assume that they have the Holy Spirit, that they understand all the mysteries of the Scriptures, that they cannot go wrong.”

Alistair Begg “Our conduct toward other people is governed by our opinion of ourselves”

The best way to be something for others is to be everything for Christ

Galatians 6: 14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Matthew 11: 28-30 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Resolution Make it your vocation to lighten people’s burdens. Develop an acute skill of detecting people’s burdens and dedicate yourself to daily making them lighter.