Galatians 6:2-3a NLT

Share each other's burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself.

Galatians 6:2-3a NLT

This idea of fooling myself, Paul uses the word "phrenapatao", which means to deceive the mind.

When we deceive ourselves.

That thing we justify, just once, just this time, its not that bad, not as bad as someone else, it won't affect me, our mind is deceiving itself.

Why would our own mind go in for this self deception?

Because our heart, our will, some part of us wants something pleasurable or something that seems easier or better for us in some way.

Maybe there's something in sharing one another's burdens that helps us to be a little more honest with our own.

At the very least Paul's encouragement here is to be aware of our ability to deceive ourselves, and at the same time, still seen as Beloved!

God's Grace and Love is enough to hold us.

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