It is not a good sign when people do not like a yoke being put upon them if the yoke be God's word. " Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly of heart." We like our own will. There may be a bondage which is not of Christ, if it is that of man on the new man, but subjection of will is the secret of all peaceful walk in this world. It is Christ's work which gives peace to the conscience; but it is a subdued will, having none of our own, which in great and in little things makes us peaceful in heart in going through a world of exercise and trial. All, in us, morally speaking, is sin, and having done with that, we live in what the Father is for us, and on what Christ is-a wondrous exchange. Self is always alienation from God; that is, in its working. 220