My Yoke is easy and my burden is Light
Jesus of Nazareth
These words struck me hard last night.
Couldn’t shake them.
So, in the quiet of night, I put on a jacket and went outside as I often do to sit and listen, and talk a bit.
And the words kept washing over me as I realized how easy things are now in comparison to how oppressive things were before.
My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
It is simple. And, it is true.
And at times, we sit back and we look at the “extrodinary” things some people do as believers in Jesus. We look at the hours poured into the poor and needy in Calcutta or we look at the man that has a heart for lost muslims, organizing rallies in lieu of the danger of his own life. Or people called out of comfort, to the desert to teach basic hygene while raising young kids, and we think Wow, what a sacrifice, what a tremendous sacrifice, it must be hard. But the more times I hear these words:
My yoke is easy, and my burden is light
the more impressed I was with how God moves on the hearts of mankind in the deepest of simpisity. It doesn’t mean, that it is easy. (seems like a paradox doesn't it?). It doesn’t mean that there will not be HARD work, and excruciating days. The emphasis here is on something holy other than what we tend to normaly dwell on. See normally we are dwelling on our comfort, we dwell on our access to healthcare, clean drinking water, safety, a cushy couch and a warm house, nice smells, abundance of tasty food – and Jesus here is not talking about these things, he isn’t talking about creature comforts.
He is talking about the internal, eternal, longing of the human soul, he is talking about spiritual things.
Spiritual ease
Spiritual weight
Spiritualy then: My yoke is easy and my burden is light
It begs the question, is your yoke HARD and is your burden UNBEARABLE? If it is, then simply – you are not about the work of Jesus, because He said His isn’t.
It isn’t, read his words, hear them, in the deepest place of your human Soul, that place where your burden sits like an anchor weighing you down, that place that you constantly have to push against to get yourself out of bed in the morning, or to talk to that person, or to force a smile on your face.
My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
It kept ringing through my head underneath the stars last night, and my mind raced to Hebrews where we read about some of the atrocities agaist those who proclaimed Christ Jesus, “put to the flame”, “sawn in two”...
My yoke is easy and my burden is light?
And somehow leading a million people out of Egypt when you’re a guy who struggles with being in the lime light is easier than NOT doing it.
Somehow, pulling your family out of the comfort of north America and placing them in a desert to teach with your young children is easier than NOT doing it?
And some how ___________ _____________ ______________ is easier than NOT doing it?
Because NOT doing it might just be the end of you.
My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
If it isn’t.
Then who are you following?
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