O<\/b>ne spouse confessed, \u201cI hate going home at the end of my work day. Everything there is so heavy. My mate is just waiting for me to listen to all the day\u2019s burdens.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s irrational to believe that we must be upset by the problems of others. Being a burden bearer doesn\u2019t mean feeling upset about your spouse\u2019s burdens. Rather, bearing burdens involves helping a mate take those cares and problems to the Lord. How does that happen? We bear each other\u2019s burdens by \u2026 Debriefing each other, not dumping on one another.<\/p>\n
Listening without trying to diagnosis or fix the burden.<\/p>\n
Caring with empathy instead of sympathy.<\/p>\n
Responding with joy and faith instead of despair and doubt.<\/p>\n
Focusing our attention on the problem-solver, Jesus, instead of the problem<\/p>\n
Praying together.<\/p>\n
Crying and laughing together.<\/p>\n
Validating one another\u2019s feelings.<\/p>\n
Comforting one another.<\/p>\n
Try this: After sharing burdens, take them in prayer to Jesus and releasing them instead of dwelling on them.<\/p>\n
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.<\/i><\/p>\n
1 Thess. 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One spouse confessed, \u201cI hate going home at the end of my work day. Everything there is so heavy. My mate is just waiting for me to listen to all the day\u2019s burdens.\u201d It\u2019s irrational to believe that we must be upset by the problems of others. Being a burden bearer doesn\u2019t mean feeling upset … Continue reading “63 BE A BURDEN BEARER, NOT A BURDEN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}