Be Someone’s Strength

Galatians 6:2…Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

We all have gone through periods in life where we felt that it was so hard to make it from one day to the next, but today – be strength for someone else.  How many times has another been there for you?  How many times has someone listened to your cries and frustrations and complaints?  Well, it's someone else’s turn.

Deuteronomy 2:3…Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

We have a God who is great and faithful, who is full of mercy and grace.  As the scripture above says, you’ve gone through this season for far too long and it’s time to go higher.  How can we be encouragement to someone else if our eyes are always full of sorrowful tears and our mouths not yielding positive confessions about God’s ability to change a season? 

Romans 12:10… Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another

This morning someone came to me just to vent because their heart was heavy, and rightfully so.  Instead of joining their Amen corner and crying with them, I was able to point them to God’s word and give them an exact scripture to meditate on to get through the trying moment.  That’s what we are here to do.  But we can’t do that if we are trying to outdo them complaining.   

Ephesians 4:29… Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

In short....stop whining!