"TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU"

   Jesus said, "take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart. And ye shall find rest unto our souls."
   The wild stallion out on the prairie is full of the pure life which God gave to him.  He snorts and wheels and runs in the strength and freedom of his own life. His great mane flies in the breeze. He is not in bondage to anything but the action of his own reflexes.
   Such life is wonderful. such energy and strength is inspiring. But it does not build anything of a constructive nature in the life of man. To do that the wild stallion must be captured and put under the yoke.  He must be broke so that man can ride him or drive him to the plow. No longer can he roam the prairie subject only to the impules of his own nature but he must go and come and do as the will of his master dictates.
   Some Christians who have been filled with the life of God are like the wild stallion. They rejoice in the life and strength which fills them. They know what it means to be made free in Gods holy spirit.  But they have not been captured and brought under the yoke of christ, therefore, their life does not build the kingdom of God.  It is as useless to God as is the life of the wild stallion to man.
   To such Christ is calling today. He would lasoo you and bring you into His corral where He would break you to do His Father's will so that instead of building Babylon with the life and energy God has given you, you could be used to build the kingdom of God.
   Christ's yoke was simply the yoke of "doing nothing of Himself."  He lived by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.  He came not to do his own will but the will of him that sent Him. Christ was in the world but not of it in the sense that He did not run His life by the action of his own mind as others about him did , but He allowed His Father in heaven to live his life in him__ to control His body by the decision of His mind.    That is the yoke Christ would place upon every child of God
    Will you come to Him and take His yoke upon you?  Will you let God place you in Christ's body as pleases Him? Will you do as He tells you to do?  Will you sweep the floor, wash the dishes, paint, or cook the food, or pray or labor as He directs?  The fact that there are many fanatics gone out into word who, by their false claims and assertions , bring reproach upon this way of life does not excuse anyone for not taking upon themselves the yoke of christ.  It should be self-evident to all that when anyone truly takes on the yoke of christ they will have entered into the spiritual reality of full salvation Union.  They will not be a "lone wolf,"  exalting themselves in the  spirit of the wild stallion.  But they will come under the yoke of the living God's mind, where are perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement with others who are in the same yoke.
   It is easy to see that all who take on such a yoke are made "One" even as Christ and God are "One" for then no one lives to himself alone in his own mind after his will but all are one in God's mind. His will is done in them_ (earth) just as it is done in heaven.
   Oh God grant that all of us may be willing to take on this yoke that we all may be made one. _ "that the world may believe."









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