Galatians 6:3-5 ESV
3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will have to bear his own load.

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3 Sapagkat kung inaakala ng sinuman na siya'y may kabuluhan, gayong wala naman siyang kabuluhan, ay dinadaya niya ang kanyang sarili.
4 Ngunit subukin ng bawat isa ang kanyang sariling gawa, at kung magkagayon, ang kanyang dahilan upang magmalaki ay sa kanyang sarili lamang, at hindi sa kanyang kapwa.
5 Sapagkat ang bawat tao ay dapat magdala ng kanyang sariling pasan.

THE LONE RANGER CHRISTIAN MYTH

“If you want to travel faster, walk alone. But, if you want to travel farther, walk together.” This is exactly true in our Christian life. You and I will run out of gas if we travel alone. Our Christian journey is meant to be a community endeavor. We must carry our burdens together. As Heb 10:24,25 says, “And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”

The imagery of the church as a body makes isolation of a believer impossible. Paul said, “For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.” [1 Cor 12:14-20]

The reason is pride. What happens when we see ourselves as self-reliant? We don’t need anyone’s help to carry our load, even when it gets too heavy for us. Or, perhaps, we are simply too proud to do the work of carrying another's burden. We must not fall into the trap of seeing ourselves as the source of our own strength to follow Jesus.

An over estimation of ourselves is lethal to our own downfall. One of the causes is the evil of posturing ourselves as better than others. Paul had warned, “When they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.”[2 Cor 10:12b]

Having been called as one body, we should always seek to engage one another, should we not? As Rom 12:3-5 says, “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another “ Paul even added, “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”[Phil 2:3,4]

Today, let’s avoid the lone ranger Christian myth.

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