Weight

 What do we think of?

 When we hear or 

think about the word

'weight' there are 

perhaps a few things 

that we may think of.

For some, 'weight' brings

an understanding of 

going to a gym and 

lifting weights in many 

different ways and sizes.

For others it may bring

an understanding of 

measurements needed for 

a certain recipe in cooking.

Then for some it can also

mean being under this, in an 

understanding of having a 

weight to bear, mentally

and emotionally. 

This can come in the form of 

many different things and 

circumstances.

In the Church we can have

weights, not necessarily 

the actual physical, but 

it is a weight.

This can be sometimes

those who struggle with

certain things within their 

lives, it can be problems

that they have 

or even sin.

There can be also the

weight of a task that

an individual has within

the life of the church to do, 

which they may find as a 

weight that they may like 

or desire to be lifted.

There can also be

the weight of 

responsibility for those

who are involved in

leadership within the church

in whatever form that may take.

Jesus himself had weight 

in ways upon him, 

he had the weight of 

the reason he came, 

which the weight was most

felt and known in the 

garden of Gethsemane

and then upon the cross.

He had the weight of the

physical cross which he

carried and the weight of

that which the cross

symbolized, which

of course was sin.

He bore this weight

willingly for and because

of his eternal, infinite love for us.

When we struggle under certain

weights, let us remember the weight

that Jesus bore for us

and look to him in. So with

whatever weight we struggle with and in,

 we then can continue to serve him and

others in renewed effort and strength.