Last night in our gospel meeting, our minister spoke about being in the yoke with Jesus. The scripture he read was Matthew 11:28-30. The salient part is in verse 30. “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” His theme was that the easiest path is to take the yoke of Jesus. We are often told that taking the more difficult path is often best, but that has not been my experience. When I take the easy path, the path the Jesus lays out for us, life is way better. There is less heartache and more joy. It was a great sermon. The sad part is that, even though I have a good intellectual grasp of that concept and am really quite moved by it, it is often my choice to drop out of the yoke and go my own way. In my experience, that has always caused pain and regret. The results of leaving the yoke of Jesus are manifested to us by many of our friends and family on a regular basis. That makes it the much more sad when I do it myself because I have no excuse. When I leave the yoke, I make life hard, not only for myself, but for my family and friends. Oh, if I could exercise a greater will to take the easy path…
