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Galatians 6 is a call to action. Paul reminds the Galatians of God’s commandment to love one another, and this plays out by bearing one another’s burdens, testing his own work and doing good.

As a community of believers Paul urges them to gently restore transgressors to fellowship with Christ and sow to the Spirit, not the flesh.

• What does it mean to bear one another’s burdens? How is Christ an example of this?
• What is the difference between sowing to your own flesh and sowing to the Spirit?
• How can you bear one another’s burdens and sow to the Spirit?

Galatians 6:1-10

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. 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.

⁶ Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches. ⁷ Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. ⁸ For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. ⁹ 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.

Prayer

Lord, thank you for your gentleness towards me and my own heart that is prone to wander. Help me to extend that same gentleness towards my brothers and sisters in the faith. Give me strength to flee temptation and sow to the Spirit. Amen.