Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, March 6th. Has the world tempted you to become so preoccupied with your needs that you don't make time for others?

Today's podcast challenges us to look up from our interests and begin bearing each other's burdens.

When you're going through some difficulty of hardship in your life and

you really feel burdened down and I mean you just, you know, you can't even express what you feel.

Do you feel the freedom to share that with someone else? Or do you feel that to share your burden,

your heartache, your trouble, your pain with someone else is

a sign of weakness that someone else would say, well, why don't you just talk to God about it?

Don't you Christians believe that God lifts your burdens? Why do you want to tell anybody else?

And so oftentimes we carry things that God never intends for us to carry. We bear burdens

that God never intends for us to carry. We bear burdens that God never intends for us to

bear alone. Sometimes He wants us to come straight to him and to deal with them. Sometimes God knows

that you and I do not really and truly know exactly how to deal with some things. That sometimes we need someone else to help us. And when

that's true, if we don't go to someone else, we just bear it that much longer, suffer that much

more, probably more painfully than necessary. And so the issue is, what do you do with it?

Well, this is a second message in the series on how to bear our burdens, and today we're talking about how to bear each other's burden.

He said, well, but wait a minute now. Man, if you knew how many burdens already have, you

wouldn't be talking to me about bearing somebody else's because I've got all I can handle.

Well, probably all of

us have felt that away at some point in our life, but you know what happens? When you and I learn

to bear someone else's burden, we learn how to deal with them, how to help them. Then when

something comes along that really gives us a very, very painful time in our life,

it's amazing how we having told someone else how God's worked in our life or we begin to do that,

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