Did you ever wonder why I Cor 13 uses the words bears all thing and endures all things in the same sentence? Aren’t the y the same? Well, I did even if you didn’t. As our house church studied the passage last year, it came to us that the two words express two very different ideas. “Bears all things” has to do with bearing burdens as Gal. 6:1-3 says.
Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who [are] spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one anothe r's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
So what is the “law of Christ”? It is the law of love and as we see, love bears all things. It has been said that the church is one of the few institutions where we shoot our wounded. We need to go after the wounded, bear the ir burdens with the m and help the m get the ir lives back in focus with the one who loves the m more than the y will ever know.
Regarding Jesus, Isaiah 53:4 in the NAV says “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted”
No one who has walked this earth has ever loved like Jesus loved. Jesus took on our sins, our grief, our sorrows. Jesus told us
“"Come to Me, all [you] who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke [is] easy and My burden is light.” Mathe w 11:28-30.
Why is His yoke easy, His burden light? Because He is yoked with us; bearing our burden with us.
Clearly, Jesus bears all things.
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