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Wednesday October 22, 2025
My yolk is easy
“Sharing God’s rest does not mean ceasing from work, any more than our ever-active God ceases, but resting in our work. Work which has rest at its center is work from adequacy; work which has strain at its center (the kind we are most accustomed to) is work from inadequacy. If you go to a store to buy ten dollars worth of goods with only one dollar in your pocket, you buy from strain: if you go with twenty, you buy from rest! If our activities are dependent on our own resources, we work from strain; if upon His, we work from rest. That is also the ‘second rest’ Jesus spoke of in Matt. 11:28-30. He worked from rest, He was so evidently relaxed. Why? Because in lowliness of heart He thoroughly knew His human nothingness, and therefore could also know His indwelling Father’s allness; and being meek of heart, He knew how to abide in His Father in times of stress, rather than rushing off to handle situations His own way. So He now says to us: ‘You are in my service, so learn the secret of rest in work from Me, learn the meaning of meekness and lowliness of heart. If you do that, you will rest, not only in your spirits from the past burden of your sins and their dominion over you, but also in your souls from the emotional stresses of daily living (‘ye shall find rest unto your souls’); and then you will be able to prove what now seems a paradox as I say it: ‘My yoke is easy and my burden is light,’ when the normal experience is that a yoke is hard to pull and a burden heavy to carry.’ God gave me that word personally thirty years ago when I had to take up responsibility in the mission to which I belong. ‘Watch,’ He said to me. ‘Whenever your yoke is hard to pull, or your burden heavy to carry, you are off beam. Get on beam again!’ I have found that an excellent barometer!”
By Norman Grubb
Pages 112-113
