Last Sunday I posted this quote on my facebook status update, it speaks of the easiness of the yoke the Christ’s bids us to carry:

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

—C.H. Spurgeon

There is no burden so heavy that the Christian person would ever shun to bear. Even if it’s the largest of Crosses or the weightiest of yokes. For what is there in commands of Christ but commands that contribute to our joy in Him?

There was never a Master like He that ever thinks of the welfare of His slaves.

He calls us to the denial of self and flesh (Matthew 16:24-26). But what is there in the call of denial of self and flesh but a call to the enjoyment of the sufficiency and majesty of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor 4:6)? Not finding stained cause for happiness in our selves, but looking to Him where an ocean of infinite grace exists. Therefore Christ can surely say that in Him the yoke is easy and the burden is light (Matthew 11:30).

In our treasured trifles we often think that we have much to lose if we cut them off. But in our frailty we fail to see that we instead desperately treasure things that are far too little and have far too little worth all the while neglecting the supreme beauty of God. Like Israel of old, they had God as their God and yet they would mold a piece of wood out of their own hands and fall down and worship it. It’s nothing short of a great tragedy.

So let us look, look to Him and continue to look to Him as our source of unfettered joy and peace. Surely, Christ of whom the fullness of grace and truth dwells (John 1:14) would be undeniably enough even for the most empty and despondent of feeble saints.