Living in the spirit may mean that a significant amount of your energy will be spent GENTLY RESTORING other people who are deeply broken, using your RESIDUAL STRENGTH to help them shoulder stuff that’s too heavy for them.
3. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there
is no law.
- Gal 5:22-23
4. Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you
who are spiritual should kick him in the head in a
spirit of self-righteousness.
- Galatians 6:1 (NTJV)
5. Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you
who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of
gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be
tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill
the law of Christ.
- Galatians 6:1-2 (ESV)
6. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is
nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test
his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in
himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will
have to bear his own load.
- Galatians 2:3-5
7. For some […] the burden [is] temptation and the
consequences of a moral lapse… For others it may
be a physical ailment, or mental disorder, or family
crisis, or lack of employment, or demonic
oppression, or a host of other things; but no
Christian is exempt from burdens. Creation itself is
broken and groaning, and believers groan with it,
8. waiting for the final deliverance that will come only
with the return of our Redeemer in glory (Rom
8:18–28).
- Timothy George, Galatians
9. Living in the spirit may mean that a significant
amount of your energy will be spent putting back
together those who have fallen, as well as
shouldering the impact that the consequences of
their actions have had on them.
10. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due
season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So
then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to
everyone, and especially to those who are of the
household of faith.
- verses 9-10
11. 15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor
uncircumcision, but a new creation
- verse 15