Lifting Others Up!

Our world has gone crazy with attacks and accusations flying everywhere and against almost everyone! How sad it is that civilized people can’t seem to listen without being offended and neglect to speak with courtesy and concern. The selfishness and hatred that seeks to see another suffer and fall is nothing less than the way of the devil himself. Everyone would do well to remember the truth of Galatians 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Christian, we may expect this from the unsaved of this world but such behavior has no place in the Believer’s life and communications. Instead, we are told to lift others up not push them down nor celebrate when others fall.  We will reap what we sow.

“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:1-2

Saying things that will hurt another, passing on some gossip you have been soiled by, cheering the failure of others is the opposite of Christ-like. Bearing another’s burdens, lifting another up requires that we remain clean of these offences and that we try not to miss opportunities to encourage others in righteousness through our words and our deeds.

Jay