Exalting God

Galatians 6:2, ESV

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ”

I have been working on some curriculum for a Christian ministry class and found this quote by Martin Luther. Perhaps it will encourage you today.

“The law of Christ is the law of love. After Christ had redeemed us, renewed us, and made us his church, he gave us no other law but that of mutual love (John 13:34). To love is not to wish one another well, but to carry one another’s burdens-that is, things that are grievous to us, and that we would not willingly bear. Therefore, Christians must have strong shoulders and mighty bones, so they can carry their brothers’ weaknesses, for Paul says that they have burdens and troubles. Love, therefore, is mild, courteous, and patient, not in receiving but in giving, for it is constrained to wink at many things and to bear them (1 Corinthians 13:4).”

• Martin Luther. Galatians. Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, 1998 (The Crossway Classic Commentaries), S. 290