Walking With LionsSample

The message of the gospel is that Jesus carried a burden we couldn’t carry. We were helpless and hopeless, but He stepped out of the splendor of heaven to take our place and bear the judgement we deserve. People around us are weighed down by strained and broken relationships, dashed hopes, debt, and many other heartaches. Our calling is to be (at least a little bit) like Jesus, to step out of our comfort and enter their world—not in a hurry, but with the time and emotional investment that mirrors what Jesus has done for us.

Charles Kingsley remarked, “It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.”

Lions look beyond their own convenience to care for each other.

• Lord Jesus, where would I be if You hadn’t borne my burden? Where would I be if You’d left me on my own? Open my eyes to see the weight of worry and loss in the lives of people near me, and use me to carry a bit of their burden.