Yoke

But, alas ! I hear some one say, it is just this abiding in Jesus, always bearing His yoke, to learn of Him, that is so difficult, and the very effort to attain to this often disturbs the rest even more than sin or the world. What a mistake to speak thus, and yet how often the words are heard ! Does it weary the traveller to rest in the house or on the bed where he seeks repose from his fatigue ? Or is it a labour to a little child to rest in its mother's arms ? Is it not the house that keeps the traveller within its shelter ? do not the arms of the mother sustain and keep the little one ? And so it is with Jesus. The soul has but to yield itself to Him, to be still and rest in the confidence that His love has undertaken, and that His faithfulness will perform, the work of keeping it safe in the shelter of His bosom. Oh, it is because the blessing is so great that our little hearts cannot rise to apprehend it ; it is as if we cannot believe that Christ, the Almighty One, will in very deed teach and keep us all the day. And yet this is just what He has promised, for without this He cannot really give us rest. It is as our heart takes in this truth that, when He says, ' Abide in me,' ' Learn of me,' He really means it, and that it is His own work to keep us abiding when we yield ourselves to Him, that we shall venture to cast ourselves into the arms of His love, and abandon ourselves to His blessed keeping. It is not the yoke, but resistance to the yoke, that makes the difficulty ; the whole-hearted surrender to Jesus, as at once our Master and our Keeper, finds and secures the rest. Come, my brother, and let us this very day commence to accept the word of Jesus in all simplicity. It is a distinct command this : ' Take my yoke, and learn of me,' 'Abide in me.' A command has to be obeyed.

The above is taken from abide I christ by andrew murry





His yoke is easy, will we accept it will we cast our burdens on him? Or Would we rather keep the stress of this life and try to do it all on our own? I for one surrender all I am, all I will ever be In my life to his will! Will you?