Let us read Paul’s letter to Galatians Chapter 6 verse 2: Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the love of Christ.
Let me ask you a very hard question today. To whom would turn when your heart is heavily weighed down? Whose presence would you long for when you are not even able to bring your problems to the Lord? You have cried alone and your tears had freely flowed down where nobody saw you. Who would you like to be there near you? Your plans have that somehow gone awry all of a sudden and all your laughter have just altogether disappeared. You want to be alone. You have no one with you could bare your heart. As a senior officer, you feel unsure of the next steps while the whole team looks unto you for direction to the next steps.
You want to bounce the ideas in your mind without being ridiculed. Or you have problems about your family that no one knew about. You worry about your childlessness, or about your future marriage or that of your sibling that you have the responsibility to arrange. Or you are casted down because of what your growing children are saying to you - unkind words about your faith or your career choice!
You had been endlessly saying broken pieces of small prayers in your heart but somehow you could not even find time to get down in your knees to cry out to God. You longed for someone you could open your heart out to and let all the troubling thoughts out. So you became restless not quite knowing what you should do. You mentally try listing out how things would possibly turn out. May be you need someone to open your heart out to; someone in whose presence you would not mind if you happen to lose control of yourself and start acting awkwardly. It could be any one of the lists below or something quite different.
May I suggest that it is in such situation that you need someone to talk to, to share and bounced your thoughts, and just be with you closely and listening to you or just offer a prayer if you feel you needed one. The Bible tells us to bear one another’s burdens. But who would be that person who can bear your burden’s with you.
Many of us found such people from someone in our ‘fellowship’. May be no more than one who would just be there available. Someone who might just walk into your room or whom you ring up when you need someone to talk to. After we spend some time with such people, then we often come out a little bit more fresh, a little bit more emptied of our heaviness and ready begin life again with a glimmer of purpose, hope and direction.
It is among the friends God gave you that you would find such kind of people, who are part of your ‘fellowship’ in the place where you work or in the organization.
In EHA, we also strive to build a fellowship of ‘individuals’ who would bear each other’s burdens as our Lord commanded us.
[Taken from “Emmanuel Hospital Association (EHA) - Fellowship for Transformation through Caring - Series of Devotion, pg. 5”, and published with permission from the author. God bless the author and all its readers!].
Upa (Dr.) Langkham, EHA apan khawlta leh Upa pahtakna lai sangta zong ahi. Ama’n Delhi pansan a Regional Director EHA North East and Coordinator for HIV/AIDS services of EHA a let sung in, “International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA) HIV Initiative Dignity and Right to Health Award (2006)” na sang kha hi. 'The Dignity and Right to Health Award’ ahihleh ‘international symbol of the global response to HIV that provides an essential opportunity to recognize, support and publicize the most outstanding role models and champions acting to stop this global epidemic’ cih a om ahi. To God be the glory!
