How do you handle life’s heavy burdens? How can you and I have hope when everyone else is doom and gloom? Non of us is an expert in the wisdom market. Life can be very unfair and dark times can become very difficult. But being faithful and loyal to Christ is walking with Him, yet waiting on Him. We may never understand why bad things happen, but being in Christ and He in us is experiencing His peace and comfort, despite the circumstances. No scheming or coni bing will improve a situation. Jesus experienced life’s worst, and He understands our darkness, physical pain, and emotional trauma. Some of my darkest crises have been the precious times with the Lord. When our grandson died shortly after birth, our son remarked, “This is the closest we will ever be to Heaven in this life.”
“Our tendency is to feel intuitively that the more difficult life gets, the more alone we are. As we sink further into pain, we sink further into felt isolation. The Bible corrects us. Our pain never outstrips what he himself shares in. We are never alone. That sorrow that feels so isolating, so unique, was endured by him in the past and is now shouldered by him in the present.”
Consider what Jesus is saying. A yoke is the heavy crossbar laid on oxen to force them to drag farming equipment through the field. Jesus is using a kind of irony, saying that the yoke laid on his disciples is a nonyoke. For it is a yoke of kindness. Who could resist this? It’s like telling a drowning man that he must put on the burden of a life preserver only to hear him shout back, sputtering, “No way! Not me! This is hard enough, drowning here in these stormy waters. The last thing I need is the added burden of a life preserver around my body!
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