It's really that simple? (Yes is the answer.)

This verse in red letters is legitimately changing the way that I view and live my life:


Matt 11:28-30

28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]  


29 Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest ( relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. [Jer 6:16.]  


30 For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good — not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.
AMP

I must first thank my dear friend Kevin Weaver for allowing the Lord to gently reveal this to him and for Kevin's superb and simple delivery of this truth.



I know, I know, I know.  #1) I haven't written a blog in months, #2) I jump right out after not having written a blog in months and make some ludicrous claim like "legitimately changing the way that I view and live my life.".  I know.  I'm sorry.  It's the truth.

Frankly, we should all start to think a little differently, and honestly, Kevin's book is going to be used to do a lot of reshaping and challenging of the modern "Christian" thinking.


The thought is this simple:
"If it ain't light, it ain't God."

His yoke is wholesome.  Think about the words that the amplified uses to describe it: useful, good, not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant.  His burden is light and easy to be borne.

That means that if you feel pressed, if you feel hard, if something is heavy, it's likely not from God.  Stop, turn around, and get that off.

"I feel so burdened, I feel so heavy for (this situation, this people group, this mission)."

Likely not from God.

I'm not saying that there aren't trials and struggles, but why do you think Paul wrote about peace that surpasses all undersanding and he and silas were able to sing in their chains?

An Easy yoke.  A light burden.  Jesus is easy and light.


More to come, but I felt like that was for someone this morning.  Run into Jesus.  He's so good.  His glory is his goodness (Moses in the cleft of the rock).

Mr. Hill