Keith Craft: Be yoked to Christ - it releases what is His to you.
Be yoked to Christ - it releases what is His to you.
The thought behind the quote
What are you “yoked” to today?
The image of being yoked together would have been readily accessible to the first-century audience. A yoke was a large wooden beam used to keep two plow animals, usually a team of oxen, pulling in tandem. Because the beam rested on their shoulders and was attached to them with a harness, it also became a word picture for being burdened or weighed down.
Read the full thought
When Jesus issues an invitation to come and be yoked to Himself, He isn’t picturing a carefree life in which we can do whatever we want while experiencing rest and reassurance from Him. He is issuing an invitation to come and be inseparably linked to Himself, going where He goes, doing what He desires. Being inseparably bound to Jesus is going to come with its own requirements...requirements that will feel a lot like death to my sinful heart.
“Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”"
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- The resurrection didn’t just change eternity. It changed what people believed was possible.
- Jesus gave you the glory that God gave Him because God made you to be great so that you could do great things.
- The more intimacy you have with Jesus, you will not only need less from others, but you will have more to give others.
- Big Thought: What Jesus says we need to do, we need to do.
- Look around and be distressed. Look within and be depressed. Look at Jesus and be at rest.
- You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.