Carry Your Own Weight!

Are you skinny as a rail, yet your legs give out before they have a chance to carry you? Are you stuck in a wheelchair day-in and day-out? Have you always been wheelchairbound, or is it a fairly new thing? My mother just found out she has Parkinson's Disease a year or so ago. She has her good days, but she has days that she has to stay in her wheelchair because her legs just won't carry her.

There are other people that are so heavy that they just can't carry their own weight. I was told that walking around downtown becomes difficult when you exceed 250 pounds. You get to start driving one of those carts around Wal*Mart at 400 pounds--It's not as fun, kiddos, when you HAVE to do it for health reasons. When 455 pounds rolls around, many women have a difficult time standing up straight due to their bust and belly weight! Even sitting, their legs and feet retain fluid, making it hard to walk. At 500 pounds, most people can't walk much anymore, and, at 700, they can't carry their own weight at all. Imagine an around-the-clock in-home care, a bedpan, and sponge baths given by the old woman next door... Ewww!

Do you carry your own weight around the house, women? Are you doing your best to keep the house clean, your family fed, the laundry done up, and the domestic chores completed? Are you following God's commands, yes, commands, to submit to your husband and train up your children in the way they should go? If it helps, remember that your husband is supposed to submit to you too. :)

What about you. men? MMHMM... Touchy spot. Sure, you work all day, but so do your wives. Some at a job outside the home, others as a stay-at-home mom or housewife. Hey! That's a full-time job too! Their job does not end with the workday, and neither does yours! Not only do you have chores to do at home, but, guys, help your wives out around the house. Remember, too, that you do have kids. Put those phones away. Stay off that computer or tv for until after their bedtime. Put the book down. Spend time with your children. They need you. Carry your own weight!

Lastly, are you carrying your weight with God? Are you talking to Him daily? There's so very much to pray about! Are you letting Him speak to you through reading His Word? Are you attending church? Are you serving? Are you witnessing? God commands us all to "Go ye into all the world". Are you going? Are you carrying your own weight?

I guess that's about all for tonight. Honestly, though, people. how many of us truly carry our own weight at home? At work? At church? All the time? It can be hard! We get tired. Forget tired, we get emotional and physically drained to the point of exhaustion. We do need to try our hardest, though. Not only do we need to try our hardest, but we should be spurring others on to try their hardest too, after all, that's what friends are for, right? See you next time! Until then, carry your own weight!