Lightening the Load

What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own self. When I am puffing myself up with my own self-importance, I’m laboring under all that weight. Jesus asks us to become like a child, take the weight off your shoulders.  He says, “Put on the weight of my yoke of my obedience to the Father.”

Here’s how it works: If you have two animals yoked together when they’re both pulling, they are doing each other’s work. Jesus is saying that if your life is heavy and burdensome, it’s probably because you are caught up under the weight of your own sense of self-sufficiency. Let’s get rid of that and take the yoke of Christ’s obedience upon our shoulders. 

How will you allow yourself to be led today?

Thank you, Lord, for lightening my burdens.