Yes, His yoke is easy. Yes, His burden is light. But let us not rush past the biblical fact that Messiah told us that He has a yoke. He has a burden. Can we talk about the yoke and the burden or do we feel provoked to immediately run into the easy and light?
If your Messiah does not present to you a yoke and a burden, then please search the Scriptures and begin to redefine Him properly. A false messiah is front and center and he offers full blown freedom to “walk in the spirit”, with few, if any, boundaries or restraint whatsoever. This figure will lead scores of people astray, just as it has been prophesied.
Sadly, many people believe that the Son was “removing His Father’s burdensome laws that no man could keep” in this text and enacting a life of “freedom from law” and ease. Yet we must remember that it was the heavy yoke that religious, hard-hearted men created that Messiah confronted and called out. It would be ludicrous to assume that Messiah, who spoke nothing on His own accord, would overrule and enact a new “freedom” from His father’s perfect Torah, that revives the soul.
In fact, it was His love of His Father that propelled Him to keep His Father’s Law perfectly, deeming Him the sinless, pleasing Son. The biblical authors didn’t confuse the two, as we read in 1 John 5:30 For this is the love of Elohim - that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. They rightly understood, and conveyed to us, that Messiah would never refer to His Father’s Law as being burdensome.
Thereby, it's no coincidence that here, Messiah is found quoting His Father, from His own words through the prophet Jeremiah. In chapter 6 we read, This is what Yahweh says: “Stand by the ways and see and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find a resting place for your souls.” (v.16) No new ideas. No new words to state. And surely no need “remove His Father’s burdensome Torah.” Again, please consider this, slowly. In the text that so many people use to justify abandoning Yahweh’s perfect Torah… Messiah quotes It. Selah.
Think on your life today and your view of Messiah. What has developed your criteria of Who He is? In any way, do you follow a lawless one that supposedly set you free from a Law that was perfect and brings light and life, just like Him? Again, many are being easily led astray in this hour, into ungoverned living that is promoted as “freedom.” Don’t let that be you today, friend. Don’t let that be your family. Be discerning. Make sure that the Torah and the Prophets outline your criteria for the one, true Messiah.
Yeshua, the Son of the Most High. Praise Yahweh that we’re offered a yoke that is easy and a burden that is light! Yes! Messiah demonstrated that a man can walk in perfect obedience, just like the Scriptures have told us! Yes! He became a literal Example for us to look unto! And, let us equally remember - He offers us a yoke. He presents to us a burden. And that’s fine by me.
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