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What are you yoked to?

What are you yoked to?

That is an odd question. How do I even answer that?

    Well.... if we want to answer that we should probably look into the word! Because I know it does not mean extremely buff or the yoke of an egg. 

Yoke: a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to a plow or cart that they are to pull. 

So when one animal is not strong 

enough to carry something, they 

will use a yoke so that two animals

can pull it. It would distribute the 

weight of the object evenly to the 

animals and they could pull it 

working together. 

As Christian's it is important that we are not yoked to the wrong things or the wrong people. When we are trying to move forward, but we are yoked to a person who is stagnant, it may prevent us from moving forward. And God does not want us stagnant. He wants us to keep moving forward. 

In the Old Testament, God talks about the people being yoked to the rulers a lot. Most of the rulers that are not following God himself but walking in their own ways. I have been reading Jeremiah and the work yoke is used many times. Sometimes God might have us yoke together with someone for a season, but when God breaks that yoke, we have to be careful to not re-yoke with that person or thing. 

We need to make sure that we are not yoked together with people who do not believe.   2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion that light with darkness?

It can be detrimental for our spiritual walk to be yoked together with someone who is not headed in the same direction as you. It can make your walk much harder. Could you imagine being tied to someone physically and you both are trying to go in separate directions? First of all, it would be exhausting. You would get tired very quick. Not only physically but mentally and emotionally as well. Pretty soon you feel like they are a burden to you and you are a burden to them. It does not sound like much fun at all. This happens to Christian's and sometimes we do not even realize it, we just feel exhausted all of the time. We feel stagnant, like we are not moving forward. Today I was at the lake paddle boarding and the wind was blowing so there were a lot of waves. I would be trying to paddle so hard but after like 3 minutes of paddling, I was not going anywhere. That is what it is like. 

Something I have observed about the yoke is that it only has 2 holes. When you are wearing a yoke with someone else....there is no room for Jesus. If we do not have Jesus, life is going to be much harder than it has to be. The load will seem so much heavier and almost impossible. 

One of my favorite scriptures in the Bible is Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my YOKE upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my YOKE is easy, and my burden is light. 

Are you yoked to an unbeliever? Maybe yoked to the world? Maybe yoked to someone who says they are a Christian but is still in the world? Does you load fell to heavy? Are you growing weary? 



Jesus will break that yoke that is heavy. That yoke that is not His. When we are yoked to Jesus, not only does our load get lighter but we start to follow Him, We start to walk the way that He walks. And life just gets better. 



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