Choose Your Yoke, Matthew 11:29-30

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Matthew 11:28-30 ESV

Every decision in life involves an exchange of burdens. Sin imposes a heavy yoke even while it convinces us we are free. When we submit to Yeshua, we repent from sin, breaking the shackles of our well-deserved condemnation, and voluntarily submit to his yoke, but what exactly does that mean? Yeshua's yoke is obedience to his Law, to Torah, not out of fear of condemnation for failure (that is the yoke that we throw off!), but out of gratitude for his forgiveness and out of love and a desire to honor him with out very lives.

As Deuteronomy 30 shows, this yoke is truly light *IF* we are submitted to him. If we are in rebellion to God's Law, then that same Law becomes an unbearable burden. Torah is both death and life. It is death to those who refuse to hear it and life to those who live it.

Yeshua's yoke isn't freedom from rules, but freedom from condemnation and fear.

From Jay Carper at American Torah (https://www.AmericanTorah.com).

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