In his epistle to the Ephesians, the apostle Paul exhorts us to bear with one another:
« I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. »(Ephesians 4:1-2)
How unfortunate it is to note that although we would like others to bear or tolerate our faults, errors and failings, we are very reluctant to bear those of others.
Indeed, nothing is so common as to bear the faults of one’s neighbor through insensitivity, through gentleness of temperament, through human complacency, through worldly honesty or through Pharisee hypocrisy. Doing it through true and truly Christian charity is the rarest.
Charity, an intimate and true love for the Lord and for his redeemed, can alone produce, in our relationships with them, humility, meekness, patience and enduring (compare Colossians 3.12-14).
PRAYER:
Lord our God, grant us the ability to bear the faults and failings of others.
It is in the precious name of your son Jesus Christ that we pray, Amen.
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