DON’T CARRY THEIR WEIGHT
Stand close enough to guide them, but don’t rob them of what God is using to build them.
Hey Phulasso Fam,
Quick drop right here.
Regardless of the generation, culture, country, or nationality we were raised in, there remain scores of us who learned how to live hard because our lives required it.
We learned that breaking under pressure had no benefit, so we learned to endure.
We learned to adapt because our circumstances didn’t care what we felt about them; we couldn’t control them.
We learned to survive with less than we needed and still keep it movin’.
Personally, I’ve grown not to resent my experience.
The Lord used it to gift me a mindset, instincts, and skills I may never have gained any other way.
James 1:2–4 reminds us that trials can produce steadfastness, and steadfastness does its work until we become mature and complete.
But those of us who learned and benefited through hard living must understand our assignment.
We are not here to shame those who have not lived what we lived.
We are here to help prepare them.
To share.
To teach.
To guide.
To warn.
To steady them when life starts lifin’ and they find themselves ill-equipped for the weight of the moment.
2 Timothy 2:2 teaches us to entrust what we have received to faithful people who will be able to teach others also.
But this we must remember:
We cannot expect someone to develop hard-earned skills while constantly protecting them from hard experiences.
You cannot protect people into maturity by keeping them from everything that would train them.
Hard skills are forged through hardship and strengthened through disciplined practice.
Responsibility.
Discomfort.
Failure.
Correction.
Endurance.
Service.
Pressure with guidance.
Not abandonment.
Not cruelty.
Not unnecessary suffering.
But real opportunity to carry their own weight, to trust the Lord to help them solve problems, and grow through the experience.
Give those who have lived soft the grace of this truth:
They can learn.
They can grow.
They can become strong through weakness.
Romans 5:3–5 tells us that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
But we must not deprive them of the very experiences that develop strength by always making everything easy, soft, or convenient for them.
We who bear scars must not despise those who are sheltered.
And the sheltered must not be denied the furnace.
There ain’t no way strength gets handed off by talkin’ about it over and over again.
Sooner or later, it’s got to be lived.
Some things must be carried.
Some wisdom must be walked out.
Some endurance must be practiced under pressure.
So let ‘em learn.
Let ‘em serve.
Let ‘em wrestle.
We gotta let ‘em fail safely enough to recover, but honestly enough to grow.
Galatians 6:2 says to bear one another’s burdens.
But Galatians 6:5 also says each one will have to bear his own load.
So stand close enough to guide them.
But don’t you dare carry the weight God assigned to build them.
Grace and Peace,
Thurston 🤍💪🏿🤍
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