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(Ask Bro Clyde to pray over the text and service,)
I. Introduction.
There is something that all humanity has in common.
Regardles of your genetics, your place or the age of your birth, this commonality has ever been the limit against which the greatest and wisest and most terrible men have crushed themselves!
No matter how far you go, how high you rise, this constant will stalk you as long as you live.
Weariness.
Tired that goes bone deep.
A universal constant, weariness is the subject of many cynical complaints and bitter laments.
poems too...
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”
I think we’ve all been there at some point, and maybe for you that point is now.
Maybe you are just tired.
And if so, that does not mean that you are backslid or lost!
Friend, you are simply tired.
And tired is not bad of itself!
It can be good!
It means you are trying!!
Pushing toward a goal!
You know, athletes, they spend their energies and their bodies, essentially breaking them down, so that they can grow back better.
Weight lifters create micro tears in each muscle they exercise, with the knowledge that if they eat correctly and rest, those same muscles will grow back harder, tougher and bigger than before.
So lives the disciple of Christ Jesus.
He or she is spiritually very active.
Prayer warriors for example, may at times be aggressive in the prayers that they pray.
Deep intercessory prayer can leave you looking for the license plate of the bus that ran you over!
Pray like that and you find that your stomach almost aches from the effort!
Of course, it feels so good in a way, to know that God has flowed through you to some devil’s defeat or some human need.
We do not mind that kind of weariness!
Still, nobody likes to feel worn out!
Physically or spiritually.
We are buffetted by all the expenditures of a lost world, a fallen system, and sometimes it takes everything you have just to maintain your balance and keep your head straight!
So yeah, we know what it is to be weary.
That is why it becomes so important to rely on God!!!!
If we rest in the Holy Spirit and if we are nourished by His Word, we recover stronger and more spiritually fit, better equipped for the next challenge.
But those who know nothing of this Holy Spirit or this Holy Book, they gain no rest and they gain no nourishment.
And so they write things like”
“Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.”
“I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.”
Or this sad statement:
“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”
Herodotus.
Friend, if we don’t watch it, we can have this same attitude of hopelessness.
That’s why you need to look in the mirror every day and remind yourself:
“I am a man of God!”
“I am a woman of God!”
“I will spend myself for him, I will spend and be spent, but I will recover!”
“I will grow and learn and push and strive and Jesus is going to help me!”
And one day, He will reward you according to your works!
Living for Jesus is a grand adventure!
Still sometimes we need reminders, like the one found in Galatians 6:9.
Here’s your takeway from Thursday Night Bible Study...
Hey, let the Word of God encourage you tonight!!!!
This is so timely and I find that it helps me!
Of course, I want to get a real good handle on this Scripture, I want this Word to nourish me, so, let’s back up to verse one of chapter 6, and get a good understanding of the context of our text!
Paul makes a lot of sense here.
Like a lifeguard, if you are going to help someone, you need to be cautious that in the process, you are not lost yourself!
Spiritual restoration is our duty to the weak, but it can only be accomplished in Meekness and with great caution.
Make sure YOU don’t get in trouble!
And if you are not well enough to help someone else, get your spirit man healthy first!
Hey, if you’re just trying to survive, I don’t expect you to teach a Home Bible Study!
Let’s get you into victory first!!!
And then, having maintained your victory, you minister out of the overflow!
In this way, much is accomplished, decently and in order.
When you are able and positioned to help someone, it gives you such a wonderful feeling when you do!
And you can feel God in it!!!!
Bearing one another’s burdens!
This is what you do in a family!
“Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
Why don’t you take a moment here and figure out how to turn that statement into a task!
Give legs and feet to your good intentions!
You are smart people in this room.
Find some practical way to bear a brother or sister’s burdens!
Be inspired!!!! Be creative!
Employ your awesome self in helping someone else!
We have to learn not to be so self absorbed!
Get beyond yourself!
Be creative!
It could be as simple as giving someone a ride to work!
What could be more noble than taking a deserving coworker’s shift once in a while?
You could volunteer your time and albow greese so a friend can get a night off with family.
Another thing I think is awesome, is when you partner with another person in prayer.
Be their prayer partner!
This is an awsome dynamic!
Teach a Personal Bible Study!
Be part of one!
Support one!
Host a Bible study!
I promise it will help!
When we help another, it enobles your life!
Remember this statement, and the man who said it?
“Whosoever shall be great among you shall be your minister, and whosoever of you will be chiefest, shall be servant to all.” (Mark 10:14)
One day a priest and a levite walked past a wounded man who’d been left for dead!
They were curious enough to look, but avoided the victim!
They could not bear the coppery smell, the thought of soiling their garments with his blood!
They could not be bothered, to give him water, at least to try and help him!
The Scribe represented Law, the Priest represented Religion, and neither did the victim any good!
It was the only the Samaritan who cared enough to bear another’s burden.
And there are many people in this world who have not been helped by laws or religion!
They need a higher power!
Show them the love of God!
When you do that, you are doing what Jesus does!
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