Matthew 11:28-30 (The Message)
28 "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. 29 Walk with me and work with me - watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. 30 Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly.”
(The New RSV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
“My Yoke Is Easy”
Catchy slogans are not necessarily true - just catchy.
These words of Jesus sound like a catchy slogan - but their not.
Like the slogan from Boy’s Town - “He ain’t heavy Father, he’s my brother.” they remind us that the yoke which is easy and the burden which is light is so NOT because little is demanded, but because much is first given.
The yoke of Jesus is the commitment to love; it is the call to be kind, loving, good, merciful, just as we have received mercy. It is discovering the “unforced rhythms of grace”.
Bearing one another's burdens in love is light! No matter how heavy it gets! To do this we first have to know we are loved. For only the loved can so love. God first loves us; then God demands much from us. And the much is easy, for it is given in love. This is the yoke which is easy and the burden which is light.
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