Burden-Bearing Strengthens
S. Cox, D. D. Galatians 6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden. The Christian gets stronger for his load, or he ought to. Train up your boy indoors; give him as much spending money as he wants; never put the boy to any work; and the poor little flabby creature will get to be mere pulp. But turn him out to work for himself, load on him study, toil, the necessity of supporting himself, and you graduate him to manhood. That man, at whose departure a world is mourning, fought his way up from poverty by hard struggle, until he attained that place which he filled in the eyes of the country and of the world. Now, that is the way God deals with His children. He burdens them to make them strong. He says to one of His spiritual children, "Every man shall bear his own burden; carry that;" and to another, "Every man to his work; do that:" and to another, "Every man his own cross; carry that." Between here and heaven lies many a Hill of Difficulty, as Bunyan describes it, where you and I have got to give over running for walking, and to give over walking for climbing on the knees. I have lived long enough to thank God for difficulties. They make you strong, they sinew your heart; they enlarge your faith; they bring you near to God. Burden-bearing strengthens; grappling with difficulties gives us what we so much need, and that is force; and in God's school some hard lessons have to be learnt. I think we learn our most precious lessons when we look at them through tears which make a lens for the eye. I have found the hardest lesson in this world is — what? It is to let God have His way; and the man or woman who has learnt how to let God have His way has attained the higher life — the highest on earth. (S. Cox, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For every man shall bear his own burden. WEB: For each man will bear his own burden.