What’s The Meaning Of “My Yoke Is Easy?”

When Jesus says that His yoke is easy what does he really mean? There is more to this analogy than just understanding beasts of burden and farming language. Yokes are more about the choices we make every day.

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.   Matthew 11:28-30"

“What’s The Meaning Of “My Yoke Is Easy?”  

What Is A Yoke

A yoke is a wooden collar that is placed on an animal so that the owner can control it.  Very similar to a bridle on a horse, a yoke is a means to allow the driver to direct the animal.   Often the yoke is wide enough for two collars for two animals. A farmer would say that two animals that are in wooden collars together are “yoked.”    ‘

Animals that were yoked together could do more work than independent of each other.   Often new animals would be yoked together with bigger ones so that the big animal could carry the burden while training the younger one to carry the load.  In other words, the younger animal often had a ligher or easier "yoked" during it’s training years.

Unequally Yoked

This brings us to another famous scripture, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.”  If the first verse wasn’t about over-easy eggs, then this one isn’t’ talking about unbelievers making bad scrambled eggs.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness??  2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT

These scriptures have more than the word yoke in common.  What we can see from the usage of a yoke is that it’s a burden that influences.  To speak in leadership terms, a yoke is influence “and influence is leadership, nothing more, nothing less.”  In some cases, that influence is very powerful, like the influence a police officer has over a criminal.

More than just influence, the word yoke has a connotation that the one yoked is the one serving another and carrying their burden.  You can see this all throughout scripture.  The word yoke was used to connotate slavery, servitude or influence in familial relationships and religious ones.  In other words, the meaning of “my yoke is easy” could be, “my service or burden is easy.”

An Influential Burden

We live in a fallen world and are born into slavery to sin.  Like the Israelites exclaimed, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free? (John 8:33)”  These are the same descendants that were slaves in Egypt and Babylon, right?

Jesus is saying that His yoke is a choice.  With every decision we have to or are held accountable, mature and responsible for making daily, we can at most times with our own free will control, choose our burdens.  You can take up your burden, the “fallen” burden, the one that will become too heavy to bear or you can choose His.  You can choose to be the lead animal and carry all the weight or be the small animal and let Him carry it for you.  His burden is light but more specific than that, His burden requires only a few things from us, Faith and Love. What we have to be careful of is who we get yoked with, and which driver are we going to listen to.

We don’t get to choose whether we will serve a master, but we get to choose the master.

Under The Influence

Let’s all agree that we’re influenced.  Every day you are bombarded with marketing messages and if you were to take a personal inventory of what you’re wearing, what device you’re using to read this, and how you styled your hair, you’d likely find that you were influenced in some small way in those choices.

What both verses are telling you is that you can choose your influence.   An interesting note about yokes is that they are not always equal. In fact, when a young ox is being trained for work, a farmer will often use an unequal yoke.  He’ll take one of his strong ox and “yoke” it together with the young one so that the strong ox does most of the work, but that the young ox learns how to do the work.

You can see the application immediately.  A strong influence (negative or positive, spiritually or naturally) will almost drag us along with it and before we know it we’ll be doing what it wants (negative or positive, spiritually or naturally).    When it comes to unbelievers and this scripture, this is what it’s talking about. It’s not that you won't find yourself crossing paths with or working jobs or even doing business successfully with unbeliervers, unbelieving work associates, co-workers, collegues,  or naturally work related business partners.  However, be sure to know who is the influencer in that association or work relationship.

Yoked Business

It’s almost impossible to not be “yoked” in business with unbelievers.  While this feels a bit like a side trip, I think it’s worth talking about.  You should not feel guilty when working with someone that believes differently than you.  I also don’t think you should feel any anticipation about you being the “one” to save them.   That’s the Holy Spirit’s job.

What’s important to remember is who is the influencer.  Ask yourself, “who is my provider?” Is it God or is the job or is the work associate?

All of us feel like we’d be willing to be fired for our beliefs.  However, if your work associate business partner or boss is doing something that directly violates God’s word are you speaking up or are you being influenced to be silent.

Yoked Pairs

Let’s make sure we’re clear, a yoke is meant to direct so that the animal can pull a burden.   One ox alone can often pull somewhere close to its body weight. However, when yoked together with another ox, they can pull up to 3 times the total weight.  Now get this! When they listen to the words of their master and they are trained they can pull up to 10 times their body weight in small bursts.

In researching yokes. animals that are yoked together are often like “teams.” In fact, many farmers like to buy animals in pairs and train them for this purpose.   In the training process, the young oxen learn to follow their owner’s commands. If both oxen are listening to their master then they will continue to progress and live out their lives as “working oxen.”

However, if they can’t follow the commands, they end up as dinner.   Sometimes a pair doesn’t work well together. The unfortunate truth of the pair is that often one is listening to the master and the other isn’t.  While this isn’t always true, often a farmer has to start over versus using one ox on another team.

Think about a marriage.   A double collared yoke under the guidance of God is meant as a blessing.  Now two people can assist with each other burdens and accomplish what one could not, it’s multiplicative.  However, if one or especially if both spouses aren’t listening to the Father then they are pulling in multiple different directions.

Now What’s The Meaning Of My Yoke Is Easy?

Every day we get to choose which yoke we want.  We can choose Jesus’ yoke or the one with our burdens.  The only way for us to really experience the light and free yoke is by letting Jesus carry our heavy yoke.   The burden that we have as Christians is not easy but it is simple.  Have the continuous Faith, Trust and believe in God, and for God to carry us and our heavy burdens, this is showing our Love for God.   When you catch yourself in worry ask yourself am I loving God right now?  How about loving self, is this showing self-love?

Every day we wake up we choose to grab our burden or His burden.  His burden is like grabbing helium balloons. Whereas our burden feels like a figurative plow.  When we worry in particular we’re picking up the heavy yoke.  I’m not saying it’s easy to always choose His way, I’m saying you have a choice.  You can fight hard in the faith with everything that is in right standing and in agreement with God's way, to always choose the lighter burden or accept the heavy one. The key to choosing Jesus’ yoke is really all about truly knowing and hearing God's Voice of Truths and His wise uncompromised righteous holy words of Instructions, accurately and clearly, for daily guidance and direction.

Here are anointed powerful shared extras from Gods Uncompromised Righteous Holy Words of Wise Instructions and Truths:

What does it mean to be unequally yoked with unbelievers?

When Paul says, “Do not be unequally yoked,” he means first, that we should not associate with believers who don't actually live for Jesus, and second, that engaging in any sort of intimate relationship or partnership with someone who does not let Jesus be the center of their lives will ultimately lead to our demise.

What is the spiritual meaning of a yoke?

We become yoked with him, partnering with God's strength and guidance. The yoke symbolizes unity, purpose, and responsibility for living a righteous life.

What is the prayer that destroys yokes?

Let the anointing in my life increase and rise up to break every iron yoke in the name of Jesus. (Isa. 10:27) Let every iron yoke that has hurt me be removed, and let me be healed and restored. Let every iron, stubborn yoke be removed in the name of Jesus.

What destroys anointing?

Sin will taint your anointing (effectiveness). Guard your anointing by abstaining from the very appearance of evil. If you do fall into sin, true repentance to God will absolve you of your transgression and bring you into right standing with the Lord. It will be as if the sin was never committed at all.

When Jesus said, “Take my yoke upon you” (Matthew 11:29), He meant that we are to submit ourselves to Him every day in every way.

What is the power of the anointing?

The Anointing is the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. It enables the believer to understand, apply, and administer spiritual truth. Simply put, the presence of The Anointing enables believers to have a spiritual connection.

What are the signs of an anointed person?

The signs of an anointed person include a clear sense of purpose, a vibrant prayer life, the manifestation of spiritual gifts, wisdom and discernment, boldness, humility, perseverance, a focus on God's kingdom, the ability to impact and transform others, submission to authority, and a flow in the supernatural.  A God Anointed Spirit filled Obedient Follower and Servant of God can be identified as Gods Anointed easily.  A God Anointed Spirit filled Obedient Follower and Servant of God carries an anointed sound and smell (not a look or an act or performance or carrying a true gift or talent to just be able to do something in a certain way that may be, look or sound impressive, that can be clearly easily mistaken for the real thing the real supernatural powerful anointing of and from God, but is instead or maybe instead a form of Godliness with no yoke destroying power (are not carrying nor are endowed with Gods anointing),  that is revealed shown exposed and clearly heard and wisely understood daily in the actions and reactions, in our spiritual and natural lifestyle choices and maturity growth in our mental spiritual levels.  Whom one have chosen to serve is identified to be clear, proven proof and evident.  

What is anointing that destroys yokes and removes burdens?

Isaiah 10:27 defines the anointing as the burden-removing, yoke-destroying power of God. The anointing is what delivers God's people and sets the captives free. The anointing is literally God on flesh doing what flesh can't do. It is God's super added to our natural.

How do you get the anointing that breaks the yoke?

When you use the anointing of God that comes from Calvary and Pentecost, the yoke will be broken. Jesus breaks every fetter; He sets men free. He WILL set you free; He WILL deliver you.

“The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” is a phrase from the Bible, Isaiah 10:27. It refers to the idea that the anointing of Jesus can break the yoke of oppression that people feel. 

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