Every year, in this day and age, I make a yoke.
Yes, I mean the kind of? It’s a challenge that you put on a cow and use it to plow a field with a home-made straw hat, some years I spend a lot of time there, but other years I do it in a hurry in a few minutes, so when I’m ready, I put it to work and I start plowing.
- I make my yoke of last year’s failures and future hopes for the next year; it is a yoke of my own creation in which success is synonymous with happiness.
- Comfort.
- Peace and security; it is a yoke in which failure equals paralyzing despair and repentance.
- And that throws me to the ground with every successive failure.
In Matthew, Jesus offers us a yoke, but a completely different yoke: “Come unto me all ye who are tired and oppressed, and I will relieve you. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, that I am meek and humble. “in the heart; and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is soft and light my burden. (Matthew 11:28-30).
And how can it be so light?It’s a gospel yoke
We take this yoke not to atone for our ancient sins and failures, but because Jesus atoned for all our ancient sins and failures.
We take this yoke not to win God’s favor or to finally attain happiness, comfort, peace, and security, but because Jesus is our happiness, our comfort, our peace, and our security.
This means that taking the yoke of Jesus should make me feel incredibly light, and Jesus himself gives us the power to take the yoke (Philippians 4:13). He never gets tired, he never runs out of breath, he’ll never leave us, he never fails.
Seeing last year is a good thing. Making plans for the future is a good thing, but let us not let these things become a system of atonement or a quest for accomplishments, but let us run to Jesus and find freedom in Him, and then let this freedom set us free in order. to chase good things next year.
By: Ricky Alcantar. © The flamboyant center. Website: theblazingcenter. com. Translated with permission. Source: How to make your New Year’s purposes absolutely miserable.
Original: How to make New Year’s resolutions absolutely unhappy. © Reforma21. Website: reforma21. org. Translation: Natlia Moreira.