Basic HTML Version
Under Christ’s Yoke, April 25
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in
heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and
my burden is light.
Matthew 11:29, 30
.
The tempter often whispers that the Christian life is one of exaction, of
rigorous duties, that it is hard to be on the watch continually, and there is
no need of being so particular. It was thus that he deceived and overthrew
Eve in Eden, telling her that God’s commands were arbitrary and unjust....
Satan’s object is the same now as then. He desires to deceive and ruin us.
We should study the life of Christ and seek to cherish His spirit and copy
His example, and the more we become like Him, the more clearly shall
we discern the temptation of Satan, and the more successfully resist his
power....
True happiness is to be found, not in self-indulgence and self-pleasing,
but in learning of Christ, taking His yoke, and bearing His burden. Those
who trust to their own wisdom and follow their own ways, go complaining
at every step, because the burden which selfishness binds upon them is so
heavy and its yoke so galling. They might change all this if they would but
come to Jesus and by His grace put off the yoke that links them to Satan,
... take the burden which Christ gives them, and let His yoke bind them to
Him in willing, happy service.
Jesus loves the young, and He longs to have them possess that peace
which He alone can impart.... If we have become the disciples of Christ
we shall be learning of Him—every day learning how to overcome some
unlovely trait of character, every day copying His example and coming a
little nearer the Pattern. If we are ever to inherit those mansions that He
has gone to prepare for us we must here be forming such characters as the
dwellers there are to possess
The requirements of God are made in wisdom and goodness. In obeying
them, the mind enlarges, the character improves, and the soul finds a
peace and rest that the world can neither give nor take away. When the
heart is fully surrendered to Jesus, His ways will be found to be ways of
pleasantness and peace
[122]
36
The Youth’s Instructor, November 21, 1883
.
37
The Youth’s Instructor, May 7, 1884
.
122