OUR BURDEN VS HIS YOKE

THE EXCELLING WORD FOR TODAY

Our Burden Vs His Yoke

Matthew  11:28-30

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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.

My dear readers, i hope you have been making a proper use of today because today will never come to you again.

Let us consider the words of Jesus. He said Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. One thing is certain here, every human is heavy ladened with one thing or the other. But if any one could answer the call he or she is assured rest. But why does it look like the reverse is the case today.

In my little years of experience in ministry, I have seen a lot of believers who always say that following Christ is not easy. I have seen ministers of the gospel who always wish they were in the circular business of the world. Some of them go about the ministry's business with so much anger and regrets and making it look like they were forced into doing Gods work.

Many church believers have come to accept these lies and for that, they have refused to follow the course of Christ with the whole of their heart. When they see some dedicated Christians in so much sufferings and burdens, it scares them so much, so they are forced to device various means of handling their burdens. Some through joining various clubs/meetings, while to some they apply human philosophy. These challenge has really watered our so called Christianity.

This has really made me to be so bothered whenever I see any believer in this state, of not experiencing rest. It also made me to recall times i have had stressful moments trying to do Gods business and it really got me thinking about this scripture. When the Light of this scripture came to me, every answer i need became clearer.

My brethren this is the process:

#Step One: Come To Him.

When you come to Him, heavy ladened and with your burden, he will take it off your shoulders and give you rest, but that is just the beginning. The bad news is that many of us have stopped at this level. We expect the REST to come automatically but along the line we start loosing hope, when the kind of rest we expected is not forth coming. Many of us start blaming God, finally we will now resolve into regrets and self pity. But the main answer lies in the next verse; "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your soul". This will introduce us to the next step.

#Step Two: Take My Yoke.

When God takes away the heavy burden of sin, failure, disappointment, addiction, crisis, guilt etc, he is expecting you to take up His yoke. Take up the responsibility of becoming His representative on earth. Get ready to even go out of your comfort zone just to announce Him on earth. Secondly God does not call a man to be idle in his kingdom. There is a specific assignment God has prepared for everyone who has answered this call. So have you discovered yours? If Yes, then Congrat! You are ready for the next step. But if No, then you need to take up his yoke, because you will not see true rest just by your own burden being taken off you. There is a role you have to play in the kingdom. You need to take his yoke today.

#Step Three: Learn Of Him.

This is the bone of contention. Many of us are not even aware that such phrase was attached to this scripture. What I see today is a situation where most of the believers come to God, their burdens are being taken off and immediately they leave without bothering about His own yoke. Why to some, they take up His yoke and immediately they are off. No attempt to even learn from who has the yoke. Until you learn from Him, you will keep having problems, struggles and unrest. This is one of the major problems of today's ministries. We try to copy what every man is doing that is working for them or worked for them, neglecting the truth that Gods yoke on us is unique based on our ability. So let us discipline our selves to learn from Him alone. Only then shall we FIND REST UNTO OUR SOUL. Check that second verse of our text again and you will discover that the REST has to be found by you, it is not automatic.

There are four (4) categories of people, I saw who have answered this call, in this package:

1. The ones who came with their burdens, but refuse to drop it because of the fear of His yoke. They will back it up with a devilish quote like, "the devil you know is better than the Angel you don't know"

2. The ones who came and dropped their burdens but have not taken His yoke at all. Due to one excuse or the other.

3. The ones who have submitted their burdens and have taken up His yoke, but are too busy and occupied to learn from Him.

4. These are the very few, who  have laid down their burdens, taken up His yoke and have also disciplined themselves to learn from Him alone.

In all these four categories of people, the only ones who enjoy easy yokes, are the ones in the fourth. Until you adopt those three steps you will never know rest in doing Gods assignment.

Please my brethren His yoke is easy, if only we can learn from Him.

Shalom!

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