Good morning Pastor John.
I am looking forward to when we can get back to Mathew studies, but in the meantime God continues to teach.
While I was walking my dog this morning, God’s Spirit reminded me of a lesson He had taught me sometime back. My dog can’t go anywhere but where I want her to go because of the yoke I put on her before we start. She can pull it off with much struggle, but not easily. God’s yoke is easily put down. All you have to do is look to something and start lusting for it, and it will fall off.
The message He had for me today was on my first thought, that when this happens, I get what I am lusting after. “Not true!” was the message this morning. On the contrary, IT GETS ME, and that yoke is burdensome and almost impossible to put off, like my dog’s. In a sense, I become that thing’s dog on a leash. When I look at it that way, it makes it much easier to turn my head back to God’s path and keep the light yoke He has upon me. It really sets me free instead of binding me.
Have a blessed day,
Mark