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"rhuff163" |
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21 Sep 2005 11:09:25 PM |
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How a yoke can be a delight |
Devotional Guide
For the week of September 18, 2005
DISCIPLESHIP
How a yoke can be a delight
To Read: 2 Chronicles 25-27
To Know:
³For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you,
leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.² (1 Pet. 2:21)
Sayre Noyes gave the clearest exposition I have ever heard on Jesus¹
announcement that his yoke is light and easy to bear. A yoke connected an ox
to its labor. Rarely were oxen called upon to do lightweight work.
Twenty-five-year-old bookseller become general officer, Henry Knox, employed
80 yoke of oxen to drag 120,000 pounds of mortar and cannon through three
hundred miles of untamed wilderness from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in 1776.
Nathan Tufts told me that the ruts made by the 40 sleds were still visible
in his youth. General Washington used Knox¹s artillery to drive the British
from Boston. The accomplishment can only be described as Herculean. How can
Jesus Christ do a Herculean work with our lives without laying a heavy yoke
on our spirits? Sayre explained how.
At a Saturday morning meeting to discus discipleship at the Byfield Parish
Church, Sayre told us that work she otherwise considers to be drudgery
becomes pure delight when it is done to teach Sunday School children. She
loves to teach the young. Tasks that normally burden her are done eagerly
when she is preparing to teach. It is love, her love of teaching children,
that makes her yoke light.
To Do:
A Sunday School class that we frequently offer at Byfield Parish is designed
to help us identify our spiritual gifts. There are abilities given to each
of us by the Spirit of God himself that will flourish when we nurture them.
What delights you? What do you do that gives you a sense of fulfillment?
What do others tell you regarding ways your life has bettered theirs? There
is no need to think that the Lord¹s yoke is anything but a delight no matter
how difficult the task we are called to do.
To Ask:
Father, thank you for making your will my delight.
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| User: "Libertarius" |
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| Title: Re: How a yoke can be a delight |
22 Sep 2005 05:14:54 PM |
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rhuff163 wrote:
Devotional Guide
For the week of September 18, 2005
DISCIPLESHIP
How a yoke can be a delight
===>If it is a good yoke?
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