“Take My Yoke Upon You,” Matt 11:29

The Yoke You Can Give Up

Yokes speak of confinement, heaviness, work.

But what of the yoke described in Matthew 11:29 as “easy, light, and restful”? Is this a yoke from a different world? A yoke which is beyond our experience today? Right here? Right now?

No. It’s ours and it’s ours right now, today.

This is the yoke offered by Christ to all of His followers. 

This yoke takes hold of the mind of Christ as eagerly as Jacob took the firstborn’s birthright. 

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that a freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not  in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 1Cr. 2:12-16

The mind of Christ is our birthright. The mind of Christ exposes our earthly judgement, the knowledge of good and evil, as death.

“What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?” St. Bernard  (1091-1153)

Live in His yoke for there you will find the abundant Life promised to you in John 10:10.

Rejoice!

Binsey