COME TO ME
TAKE MY YOKE AND FOLLOW
GO OUT OF YOU TO ME & PICK UP YOUR CROSS
GO OUT OF YOU TO ME & PICK UP YOUR CROSS
COME TO ME, TAKE MY YOKE, to ALL who labor and are heavy-laden. There is nothing more crippling than a full load of sin.
GO OUT (of you) TO ME, to those who have taken His yoke, but still exert themselves as if their worry and blisters help.
PICK UP YOUR CROSS, a follower who forgets what they were.
Which are we? No one but Jesus really knows which one we are, but He has made clear what He specifically will do for us. He will make Himself and His Father known. He will make sure our cross and His yoke are a perfect fit and well worth picking up and bearing every step of the narrow way to the goal. He will feed us and heal us and give us rest for our soul. Why? Because the Father chose to make us specifically for the purpose of entering into a relationship with Him which can only be designed and built-in by His supernatural creative genius. Heaven [eternity] in every heart. To the soul still isolated in its own delusion of personal sovereignty, that prospect only generates the terror of lost “identity” and “personhood”. But to the heart that has tasted His gracious gift of redemption, it is a foretaste of becoming complete and free of the distractions built into the heavy life-crippling weight of separation from our Father. To enter into being One, as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One, is the ultimate timeless joy of wholeheartedly joining in their ecstatic, never-ending Divine Dance!
[all scriptural references in this email come from AMPC]
Listen in on Jesus’ conversation with the Father:
At that time Jesus began to say, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [and acknowledge openly and joyfully to Your honor], that You have hidden these things from the wise and clever and learned, and revealed them to babies [to the childish, untaught, and unskilled]. Yes, Father, [I praise You that] such was Your gracious will and good pleasure.” (Matt 11:25-26)
He then looks out over the souls gathered around Him and says, “All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Father except the son and anyone to whom the Son deliberately wills to make Him known.“
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and over burdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good-not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.” (Matt 11:27-30)
Matt 12:1 At that particular time Jesus went through the fields of standing grain on the Sabbath; and His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick off the spikes of grain and to eat. v9 And going on from there, He went into their synagogue. And behold, a man was there with one withered hand. v13 Then He said to the man, “Reach out your hand.” And the man reached it out and it was restored, as sound as the other one.