Have you ever had someone tell you to “just trust in the Lord,” and yet you felt they didn’t catch much of sharing in your burden or pain ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between Christians, when one of us is hurting, is it our job to fix their problem with Bible verses—or—show them we care so, ‘for real’, that they know some of their burden is lifted, because it is shared ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed, both, but not the first without the second, first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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