Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post, Are You God's Wife?

Romans 151, we then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities or weaknesses of the weak

and not to please ourselves.

Galatians 6-2, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Yesterday, we looked at bearing up others in the sense of staking

ourselves to them and holding them up, much like one would stake up a tomato plant.

This is actually one of the meanings of the word used for bearing with one another in Ephesians 4, 2, and Colossians 313.

However, the Greek word used for bearing in our two opening verses is different, those subtle Greeks.

This word, Bastazzo, means to lift or carry, and can imply removing something or carrying it away.

Sometimes we carry another person's load in order to

give them a break. But when we bear someone's burden through prayer, we're doing more than this.

We're doing so in order to help them get rid of it. Christ bearing our sins and diseases is a powerful

example of this. Isaiah 53, verses 6 and 12, state the following concerning him. All we like sheep

have gone astray. We've turned everyone to our own way.

And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity or weaknesses of us all. He bore the sin of many and made

intercession for the transgressors. Christ bore our sins and

iniquities, but he is not still carrying them. He removed them and carried him far away from us,

as far as the east is from the west. Psalm 103, 12. Somewhere, somehow, he disposed of them.

This connotation of bearing something in order to get rid of it is extremely important in the

context of prayer. It's imperative to know that we don't simply carry someone's burden just to give them a break.

We stake ourselves to them as discussed in yesterday's post and pray to remove that which is burdening them.

The concept of the scapegoat in scripture illustrates this.

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