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1. Be humble.You've got to be humble, or you're going to be of no use to anybody. I find it amazing that our command about bearing one another's burdens is couched between two bookend verses that say much the same thing. Galatians 5:26, the last verse of chapter 5 states, \\ anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.\interesting that the command to bear one another's burdens is found between two bookends. The reason more people in God's church don't bear more burdens is we think we're too good to get down there and help. \I've always been amused by the story of the lady who is caught in a flash flood underneath an underpass. The water is rising up to the floorboard. A young fellow in a four-wheel drive comes across the bridge up top, stops, opens the door and leans down. Hesees that older woman and he yells, \He is of no use from up there. Humility is to see ourselves and be down there. Humility is the foundation of the command in Galatians 6:1, \brother.\you act any differently, or much better than your brother. Spiritual certainly doesn't mean having a self-righteous haughtiness. Being spiritual means being full of the spirit.In the same context as our passage, Galatians 5:2223, we know what being full of the Spirit means, don't we? It means having love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, and self-control. Wrap all those up and you have a spirit of humility, don't you?Too many times, we're like the people in a little town in Connecticut. It was a suburb of one of the major cities. Some of the people began to be a little incensed because there were reckless drivers running through their little suburb. So 53 of them put their names on a petition, took it to the sheriff and said, \I can do.\reckless driving through the town. All five of them had their names on the petition.Sometimes we can proudly find faults in others that are also our own faults. If I am going to bear another%u2019s burden, whether that burden be spiritual, emotional, physical, or whatever, it starts by being humble, by being full of the spirit.Many of you know the name Elza Huffard who wrote something that I'll never forget. \was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me, until he had that thought.\Isn't that good? It surely is right. Spiritual men and women are so cognizant of the need of God's grace in their own lives that they could never approach a brother in the spirit of arrogance.So what do I do when I bear a burden? I examine my own humility. Am I being humble? Am I spiritual?2. Be gentle -Galatians 6:1 says, \That's especially pertinent when the burden that we help bear is related to sin.