Load Sharing
This Week's Theme: Encouragers—Acts 14-28
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
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Key Bible Verses: Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2).
Bonus Reading:Acts 16:35-40
Part of the responsibility of being a true mate is to express your needs as well as help to carry your partner's load. But we may be too embarrassed to ask for help, let anyone know we have needs, or wrongfully accuse our mate of not caring, when the real problem was we didn't communicate our need.
There's an old story about a farm couple who learned how to signal each other when they needed some encouragement. If the man needed some TLC, he'd walk into the kitchen and toss his hat on the table. This signaled his wife that she needed to encourage and strengthen him. If the husband came in and saw his wife wearing her apron backwards, this was a sign that he needed to bear some of her burdens. You guessed it! One day he walked in from the field and threw his hat on the tableand she had her apron on backwards.
As a couple practices encouragement and supporteven when they both need help at the same timethey can, in the midst of their need, put their arms around each other and cry together, each receiving strength from the other.
Jim Conway in Men in Midlife Crisis
Respond:
How well do I offer encouragement to my wifeand accept it from her?
Thought to Apply:
We live by encouragement and we die without it; slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm (actress)
Adapted from: Men in Midlife Crisis (Victor, 1978/1997)
For your convenience, Men in Midlife Crisis is available in the ChristianityToday.com bookstore. 1 of 1
Lord, help me to be a true encourager to someone around me who needs a lift.
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