Yoke

Hello and God’s Peace Dear Readers.

As Dennis Hilman and I are still traveling through the USA doing Mission Education and Preparation Seminars. Lord willing in two weeks from today I will be at home. I am having a wonderful time traveling, doing the seminars, and seeing the Christians around the USA. However, it will be surely nice to get home to my wife and family!

As we go through this life, we have both good and not so good days. We have mountaintop experiences, as Dennis and I have had so many of lately both in India and in the USA, and we have those times in the valleys of life. I am so very thankful that the same one true God that is the God in the good times, He is also God in the bad times. When we feel we are truly in the valleys of life, having a hard time, we can be assured that our God knows our situation is by the side of all those that believe in Him.

Remember our Lord Jesus said: Matthew 11:29 (KJV)
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.

Rest in Him. Many of you in foreign countries understand what a yoke is better than us in the USA do. A yoke is used for oxen or cattle, or horses, to tie them together so that a team can be used to get the work done that needs doing.

The believer’s team consists of our Lord and us. Each of us that believe by faith, our Lord helps us, leads us, carries our load, protects us, and is our all in all. Notice that verse says, Matthew 11:30 (KJV) For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. If we are truly yoked to our Saviour by faith, we can understand how our burden is light. It is because His yoke is easy. The earthy yoke makes two animals work the same amount to share the load, making it lighter. With Jesus, He is able and willing to carry our whole load, making our burden very light! Turn to Him at all times. Stay in tune to your Saviour, lay all your burdens down before him, and your life will be joyous.

If we go on our own we have tremendous burdens that we cannot bare. Do not attempt to go up the mountains or through the valleys of life alone.

It is so wonderful how the entire bible works together to bring this message of Salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord, and the benefits and gifts that are given through it when,
… by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ephes. 2:8 (KJV)
I leave you this week with this wonderful words!
Isaiah 61:1-3 (KJV)
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

May the Lord Bless your week! John