"Love One Another"

Even The Person Who Lives In Sin?

Galatians 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is overtaken in some offence, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, looking to yourself lest you also be tempted.

Whatever Paul was thinking about when he said this we can know one thing for sure; the offence was brought on by temptation. The last thing he said proves this because he says that the believers to the Galatians needed to be careful when they went to help restore someone who had gotten wrapped up in an area of sinful living.

This could have been many things and we can see the same things all around us today, not to exclude the worship of other things and idols. We even have a TV show called, "American Idol", don't we?

Paul was encouraging the spiritually mature to reach out and help the believers who had fallen, with meekness. Another words without a proud and haughty spirit! Have we ever looked at someone else with a bit of pride and thought about how we would never have fallen that low? I have caught myself thinking this before! I have seen it all having grown up in the church and having parents in the ministry! Many times I wondered why or how someone could have gone so low in their life when they once were so close to God.

I can tell you now as an adult, "It isn't that hard to do when the tribulations of life come at you and you cannot find help from the very ones who you thought were your friends. I'm speaking of the church, in case you didn't realize this. Maybe your church doesn't act this way but there are many that do and we are the ones who are responsible. Paul goes on in this passage to say just that. We each are responsible for our actions when we see others in offence.

Let's do our best to reach out to the ones who need our help today. Take a few minutes and think about the people you know and see if there is someone who you have been avoiding. Selah.