“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…