Article September 30, 2013 Issue

Can we take the yoke?

Bruce J. Smith

I don’t know about you, but there are many times when I’m facing a difficult situation, and I just want to throw up my hands and say, “Father, please show me what I am supposed to do!”

That’s when I ponder Christ Jesus’ gentle promise: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28–30).

I’ve often wondered: Yoked together with whom or what? Is it Jesus of Nazareth with whom I’m to be yoked? Well, Jesus hasn’t been around for millennia. So, if I’m to work side by side with him, I’m pretty much out of luck. But what if it’s an invitation to act in unison with the Christ, the spirit Jesus embodied and demonstrated? To act in accord with the “divine message from God to men, speaking to the human consciousness”? (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332).

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