Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
29. Take my yoke upon you. Many persons, we perceive, abuse the grace of Christ by turning it into an indulgence of the flesh; and therefore Christ, after promising joyful rest to wretchedly distressed consciences, reminds them, at the same time, that he is their Deliverer on condition of their submitting to his yoke.
When all around is discouraging, cities in ruin, most men careless of their own happiness, Christ looks upward and gives thanks: though Israel be not gathered, yet shall He be glorious. His thanksgiving for the remnant of babes who receive the gospel is the sovereign cordial that silences drooping souls and defeats the melancholy of grief and fear.
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Commenting on Matthew 11:25-30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Christ calls a profession of faith in him, and subjection to his ordinances, a yoke, in allusion to the law of Moses, and in distinction from it; and a "burden", with respect to the very heavy ones the Scribes and Pharisees laid upon the shoulders of the people, obliging them to a strict observance of...