"Carrying Each Other's Burdens" by Rev Ruemu

 A sermon on the topic "Carrying Each Other's Burdens," by Rev Ruemu
@ St Aidan’s Church Sunday 16th November 2025 - Real Lives Service

Let us pray: Lord Jesus, you bore the cross, the ultimate burden, for our sake. Give us your eyes to see the burdens around us, your humility to kneel down, and your strength to help carry them. Make us a church known not for its lightness, but for its love, a people who bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill your law. In your mighty name we pray, Amen.

TEXT:   Scripture Reading: Galatians 6:2-5 (NIV)
"Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks they are something when they are nothing, they deceive themselves. Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load."

INTRODUCTION:
Oxford Dictionary—Noun meaning of Burden- a load, typically a heavy one., so the load can be physical, mental, or spiritual. --It could also be financial burden, Marital burden, Emotional burden, Work related burden. Any load that seem too heavy for you to carry or bear.

​CONTEXT: ​This morning, let’s look at three things this call to burden-bearing requires of us.

First, It Requires Proximity. HOW DO WE ACHIEVE THIS?

Second, It Requires Humility. You Have to Bend Down to Lift. HOW DO WE ACHIEVE THIS?

Third, It Requires Empathy, Not Just Sympathy.
 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34). HOW DO WE ACHIEVE THIS?

APPLICATION; So, where do we begin?

1. Be Burden-Aware: Look around you. Where and How?
2.  Have the courage to say, “I’m struggling. To Whom, Where and how?
3. Be Practical:  In what ways can I or we offer help?

For this is how the world will know we are His disciples—not by our perfect lives, but by our love that is willing to bear a sacred weight, to share in a holy struggle, and to fulfill the law of Christ by carrying one another’s burdens. Amen.
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