You Reap What You Sow

The Salty Pastor · Oct 9, 2026 · 17m

Paul draws a careful distinction in Galatians 6 between burdens and loads. A burden is the weight everyone carries — the difficulty, the grief, the hardship of being human. We're meant to help each other with those. A load is different. It's personal responsibility — the pack you're meant to carry yourself, the work that only you can do to become who you were made to be. Carrying someone's load for them doesn't help them. It robs them of the confidence that comes from discovering they could do it. There's a difference between compassion and codependence, and understanding it changes how you…