yoke

Matthew 11: 28-30 28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

We all have seasons in our life when we are tired... physically & more importantly spiritually. 

Lately I see myself walking around with a wooden bar or frame on my shoulders much like an oxen... how easily I am defeated! Now, on this bar it reads: work, family, bills, responsibilities, worry, stress... all sitting heavily on the back of my neck. ...no wonder I am tired.

We all carry around some type of pressure, and it's easy to allow those pressures to take us down physically and spiritually. 

Christ offered something different; something less burdensome, less heavy, less straining to what the Pharisees were accustomed to in that time. 

Francis Chan, the author of "Crazy Love," describes "stress" and "worry" perfectly. He says, "STRESS says that things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace towards others, or our tight grip of control." He says, "WORRY implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives." 

Still today, Christ offers such a sweet, gentle invite for each of us to take His yoke, for His yoke is easy and His burden is so much lighter than the pressures of the world. I'm so glad that Christ still offers this to me today. I know I can't carry all of this on my own.