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His Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Light
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many of His followers have an anxious, troubled heart, because
they are afraid to trust God. They shrink from the consequences of
complete surrender to Him. But unless they make this surrender,
they cannot find peace.
When we are born from above, the same mind will be in us
that was in Jesus. Then we shall not be seeking the highest place.
We shall desire to sit at the feet of Jesus, and learn of Him. We
shall understand that the value of our work is in proportion to the
impartation of the Holy Spirit. Trust in God brings holier qualities
of mind, so that in patience we may possess our souls.
How His Yoke Makes the Work Easy
The yoke is placed on the oxen to aid in drawing the load, to
lighten the burden. So with the yoke of Christ. When our will is
swallowed up in the will of God, we shall find life’s burden light. He
who walks in the way of God’s commandments walks with Christ,
and in His love the heart is at rest. When Moses prayed, “Show me
now Thy ways, that I may know Thee,” the Lord answered, “My
presence will go with thee, and I will give thee rest.”
Exodus 33:13
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Those who take Christ at His word, and surrender their lives to
His ordering, will find peace. Nothing of the world can make them
sad when Jesus makes them glad by His presence. “Thou wilt keep
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him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he
trusteth in Thee.”
Isaiah 26:3
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Our lives may seem a tangle, but as we submit to the wise Master
Worker, He will bring out the pattern of life and character that will be
to His own glory. And that character which expresses the glory—the
character—of Christ will be received into the Paradise of God.
As through Jesus we enter into rest, heaven begins here. We
respond to His invitation, Come, learn of Me, and thus we begin
the life eternal. Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through
Christ. The more we know of God, the more intense will be our
happiness. As we walk with Jesus in this life, we may be filled with
His love, satisfied with His presence. All that human nature can
bear, we may receive here.
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