The passage is the "Take my yoke upon you for my burden is easy and my yoke is light.
The thing that really stuck out to me is the part about the yoke. I found a picture of what I think Jesus was talking about.
Here the two oxen share the load and that makes it easy, and light.
But in the picture below only one oxen is bearing the load and that makes it hard on not only the oxen caring the load, but also on the one being carried (okay use your imagination a bit with me here :) )
Sometimes we want God to do big things in out lives, but we are not willing to do big things in the kingdom. God will not hurt us by making the yoke unequal. To the degree we submit to Him is the degree He can work in our lives. If we are small to Him to make the yoke easy He has to seem small in our lives. The reason we may not always see God doing big things in our lives is not because He doesn't want to, but rather because He cares enough to not allow us to get hurt by bearing more of the load than we need Him to.
Hope that makes sense.
Here the two oxen share the load and that makes it easy, and light.
But in the picture below only one oxen is bearing the load and that makes it hard on not only the oxen caring the load, but also on the one being carried (okay use your imagination a bit with me here :) )
Sometimes we want God to do big things in out lives, but we are not willing to do big things in the kingdom. God will not hurt us by making the yoke unequal. To the degree we submit to Him is the degree He can work in our lives. If we are small to Him to make the yoke easy He has to seem small in our lives. The reason we may not always see God doing big things in our lives is not because He doesn't want to, but rather because He cares enough to not allow us to get hurt by bearing more of the load than we need Him to.Hope that makes sense.
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