The Easy Yoke

The Discipline of Surrender by Douglas Webster. Chapter 6

I have often heard that farmers will usually yoke a stronger animal with a weaker one. Even though the weaker animal may be huffin' and puffin' under the weight, it is only a fraction of what it could be taking, if not for the strength of the lager beast. I think being yoked with Christ is like that. 

Webster shares that we become yoked to the freedom in Christ, not by theological education, or being spiritual know-it-all's, but through the doorways of our wills (p.56). It is then when, in obedience, we willingly yield to God's wisdom, love, and call. I love it when he says it is then when we enter into a "partnership with the Lord Jesus" and an "empowered partnership" to boot (p. 60). Wow. What a great partner to have!! God.

But there are those, Webster writes, who seek to live with each foot co-yoked onto numerous differentanimals at the same time (my words, not his). "Sometimes we insist on trying to travel the Christian life with all our personal baggage of guilt, materialism, lust, and selfishness" (p.55) When I read these words I was struck with the haunting memory of Robert DiNero in THE MISSION trying to climb up the mountain - all the time clinging to his baggage. And the joy that met him when he was set free. This is an iconic scene which I commend to you HERE.

When you watch this link what do you see?