Today, I decided to tackle the garden. It was a daunting task: there were weeds growing on top of weeds! So, armed with a nothing more than a shovel and a wheelbarrow, I set to work!
3 or 4 hours later, there was one neat garden bed. It is completely free from stones or weeds, and is ready for planting! Then, I saw my poor hands. They were completely smeared with mud, dirt was caked under my fingernails, and there were several spots where I had been scratched by thorns.
The garden looked great, but the price? Getting my hands dirty.
Getting involved with other people’s lives can be a messy business. It’s easy to look at a life, see a weedy mess, and simply decide to keep our perfectly manicured nails out of it. However, in Galatians 6:2, we are instructed to bear one another’s burdens, or in a different translation, “Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the laws of Christ.”
Will we be able to deal with some scratches? Can we look past some mud and dirt? We had better. To fulfill the mandate in Galatians, we have to roll up our sleeves, and get our hands dirty!
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