Help!!
Today’s Reading: Numbers 11:4, 10-17
Focal Verse: Numbers 11:17b
“…they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone.”
How many people do you know that seem to lead stressed out lives? They are busy with their families, their work, even with church, and they look as if one more thing will make them snap.
Maybe you are that person. Maybe your life is full of all sorts of good intentions, but you know that beneath the surface there is a pressure cooker ready to blow. Maybe you are ready to say to God, just like Moses, “If you treat me like this, please kill me here and now-if I have found favor in Your sight-and do not let me see my wretchedness.”
Moses had found favor in God’s sight, but God had a much better answer for Moses than death – burden bearers. Life was never meant to be lived in a vacuum and neither was ministry to happen that way.
We first have to acknowledge our need for God. In John 15:5, Jesus reminds us of the importance of intimacy with Him, and says, “without Me, you can do nothing.”
We also need other people. When God created Adam, He said, “It is not good that man should be along; I will make him a helper comparable to him” (Genesis 2:18).
Moses asked for help from the beginning of his ministry and God gave him Aaron. Now the ministry had grown and the burdens had also grown. God responded, not in anger at Moses’ desperation, but with a gracious solution – 70 helpers to bear the burden.
God today tells us to be “burden bearers” for each other. Galatians 6:2 says, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” What “law of Christ”? Love. Love for each other just like the love God showed Moses. Grace for our fellowman when life and
ministry become “too hard”.
If you need help, ask God. If you see the need, be a burden-bearer. Thank God for His gracious provision He has given us through each other.
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