May 6 - Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens,

and in this way you will fulfill

the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2

What is “the Law of Christ”?

• In 613 rabbinical laws.
• 247 come from the book of Leviticus.
• On Sinai, God simplified them to “the Top Ten.”
• In the Gospels, Jesus simplified them to two.

Do you remember them?

• The first is … “you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” – Mark 12:29-30
• The second is this, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mark 12:31

As we’ve said before, the way to spell “JOY” is “Jesus,” “Others,” and finally “You.” “Bearing one another’s burdens” obviously fulfills the second “Law of Christ.” Indeed, helping a neighbor carry (bear) their burdens, is precisely the kind of selfless act that helps us spell joy.

But here’s the question: Does “bearing one another’s burdens” also help us fulfill the first and greatest commandment – loving God, heart, soul, strength, and mind?

Yes.

Part of loving God is loving what he loves. And if God loves other people, then we should love other people.

In this way, there’s really only one commandment: Love God (and therefore, what he loves).

(I think Jesus needed to add the second commandment because we’d forget it otherwise. And I think the Father needed to spell it out even further in the Ten Commandments and all the other rabbinical laws because we’d try to find loopholes. But really there’s only one true secret to success in life: Love God and things he loves!)

In Christ’s Love,

A guy who wants to echo Paul

In 1 Corinthians 2:2

“I resolved to know nothing

while I was with you except

Jesus Christ and him crucified”

(I want to know him and love him

and thus fulfill the Law of Christ)