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My Yoke is Easy

April 28th, 2012 Ben Comments off

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.

The Spiritual Man #2 – The Carpenter

March 5th, 2012 Ben Comments off

By Him, all things were created. Things that are in Heaven and in the Earth, both visible and invisible. Whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him (Colossians 1:16).

The Builder Himself came down to the built, the maker to the made, and lived with them in skin.

Through Him, all things were made that have been made, yet it, they, we did not recognize Him.

The most stunning puzzle of all Eternity, God Himself, the only self-existent God, lived a life of a creature, indwelt the flesh, and became man.

The one deserving to be served, served, and humbled Himself to His Father’s will.

Untold angels peered on into this delivery, as messengers came by. Prophets of old had desired to understand this, and the multitude of the heavens looked on to comprehend. What was this bold, blazoned, bizarre, and blessed plan of God?