A friend tells you about their troubles, trusting you to care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes immediately popping off the right Bible verse is not the same as bearing someone’s burdens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may have the right verse—but see if the person feels that YOU lifted some of their burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How do we obey Jesus ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Bear each other’s burdens, AND SO fulfill the law of Christ.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes we don’t have to fix someone’s thinking or their situation right away.
Hold your words, and Bible verses, for a moment.
Sometimes we must first show we care, so they know we ‘get it’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A friend tells you about their troubles, trusting you to care. Sometimes immediately popping off the right Bible verse is not the same as bearing someone’s burdens. You may have the right verse—but see if the person feels that YOU lifted some of their burden. How do we obey Jesus ? “Bear each other’s burdens, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7797,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}