At that time Jesus began to say, I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth [and I 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.

All things have been entrusted and delivered to Me by My Father; and no one fully knows and accurately understands the Son except the 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 overburdened, 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.

Matthew 11:25-30

The Christian life fully lived is the easy, good, and unburdensome life.  Faith, when lived, does not take any great effort to maintain.  As we learn from Christ, as we put Him on and stand in His overcoming Spirit, He that is greater than us withstands the wiles and opportunities of the enemy, the world, and our flesh.

Those who would learn Christ must learn what it is to put off their old selves, and to put on Christ.  This is the instruction of Paul in the light of the Finished Works of the cross, and it is in doing so that we live wholly abiding in Christ, in every facet and corner of our being.

When we really let Him be our foundation, as hard as that may be at times to trust Him that deep, that completely, even the greatest warfare becomes light and easy.  When we let Him be the source and bedrock of all of our emotions, deriving right and wrong only from Him, deriving what is proper and acceptable from Him, and making our every decision based solely upon what He says is right, as we listen and seek Him, that is the safest, easiest place to be.

There really is no secret, no key.  What is not clear, simple waiting, asking, and need will show you.  It is all about Him.  All about what He has done, and simply believing it in such a way that He is our source, and none other.

When we do that, no darkness can touch us, even as it says,

We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

1 John 5:18

How often have we seen this the case?  Every time we truly yield to the Spirit, and put Him first in our lives.