The Yoke
“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth” (Lamentations 3:27).
“Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me … For
My yoke is easy, and My burden is light”
(Matthew 11:29-30).
To be yoked together means that you will be walking with another person in very close company. The direction one person takes is the direction the other must take. The job one person is doing is the job the other must do. Where one person goes the other must go. It cannot be otherwise.
We are to learn to walk with the Lord in our youth, yoked together in fellowship with Him, doing His will and going in the paths where He would have us to go. There will be burdens to bear, and life will not always be easy. But as we learn of Him and His ways, the yoke will indeed be easier, and the burden will be lighter. This is because we are in fellowship with One who does not give us more than we can carry or bear and even carries and bears it with us.
The yoke of this world is heavy. “The way of transgressors is hard” (Proverbs 13:15). However, “the way of the Lord is strength” (Proverbs 10:29).
