Through the lens of Young married

There is a sentence in Numbers 11 that should land in any marriage. “I cannot carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.” (Num 11:14)

Marriages get burned out the same way Moses did. One spouse — sometimes both — ends up trying to carry too much alone. Too much of the parenting. Too much of the household. Too much of the planning. Too much of the emotional labor. Too much of the financial weight. Too much of the spiritual weight.

The Father’s answer to Moses was not, try harder. It was, share the burden.

Marriages need this. Not just spouse-to-spouse — though that matters. But also marriage-to-community. Seventy elders. People outside your two-person system who help carry what the two of you cannot carry alone. Friends. Family. Small group. Counselor. Pastor.

One small thing this week: identify one thing one of you is carrying alone that you should be carrying together — or something the two of you are carrying alone that the community should be helping carry. Reach out. The Father has seventy in mind.