Daily Rhema: HIS YOKE IS EASY

Matthew 11:28 -30 KJV
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

The scripture declares that His yoke is easy, His burden is light and His commandments are not burdensome (1Jn. 5:2-4).

Yet in practice sometimes, it seems hard to do the will of God; in fact the scripture says we must endure hardness and partake of sufferings, which seemingly is contradictory to having an easy yoke and a light burden:

2Timothy 2:3 NKJV
You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 3:10 NKJV
..that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

How then do we endure hardness and still find the yoke easy?

By the wisdom of God using the grace and mercy of God (Ecc. 10:10; Rom.9:16).

1Corinthians 15:10 NIV
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them-yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

By using the wisdom of God, a difficult or hard task can be made easy. For instance, if you try to cut a field of grass using a cutlass you will find it hard: but if you use a motorized lawn mower, the same task will be much easier. The difference is the wisdom it took to make and use the lawn mower.

Spiritually, the same is true. God’s people perish for a lack of knowledge of spiritual things and laws (Hos. 4.6). Therefore, they find spiritual tasks unnecessarily hard and difficult.

Furthermore, the grace of God makes the life of God available to us through our born-again spirits, enabling us to do the will of God by supernatural strength. As you grow in grace, greater, multiplied measures of life are given to you (2Pet. 1.2-4; 3.18) and so you will find things that used to be hard easy to do.

For instance, I used to find fasting very difficult to do as a young christian, but when I came into better teachings by Derek Prince and Kenneth Copeland showing me how to use the wisdom and grace of God to fast, I started finding fasting easy.

Finally, the mercy of God is the compassion of God that makes Him give life to us from the air, causing our efforts to be crowned with success. Without the mercy of God even after working hard, we may not be successful.

So by the combination of the wisdom, grace and mercy of God, which we get through prayer and the Word using a meek and lowly heart, like Jesus indicated in Matt. 11:29-30, we will find His yoke easy and His burden light!

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