While most of Master Chief’s journey during the original Halo trilogy is a solo experience, he didn’t save the universe alone… across each of his adventures he was joined by different co-op partners who provided him with critical support in his moments of need. Some of his allies (like Cortana) were present almost every step of the way, while others (like the Arbiter) were on a parallel path that didn’t intersect until the moment called for it… and a few showed up just long enough to drop off a Warthog before disappearing from the campaign completely. Master Chief may have carried the burden of being the “Reclaimer” on his back, but it was his support team who carried him to the finish line.

It’s easy for us to see ourselves as the “main character” in our stories in life and focus on our own challenging crosses to bear, but our biggest contribution for the Lord may come in the form of being a support partner in the story of a fellow follower as they fulfill their own missions for the Lord. While I’m sure he had plenty of his own problems, the one moment in Simon the Cyrenian’s life that changed the entire world was the day he carried someone else’s cross. In our journeys today, let’s seek opportunities to be a co-op partner for another soul in need. The most important “cross” we end up carrying in life might be the one that belongs to somebody else.

Now as they led Him away, they laid hold of a certain man, Simon a Cyrenian, who was coming from the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. Luke 23:25

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2

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