Human Yoke

How do we take up this easy yoke? Oftentimes, we imagine the yoke used in farming, where it is shared between two animals to ease the load. We might imagine we are paired with Jesus, and he helps us bear the weight of our burdens. This is true and a lovely image, but we might also consider that “Jesus was referring to a human yoke, a piece of wood ‘worn by a single person to distribute the weight of a load across the shoulders’” (Rodney Reeves, Matthew, The Story of God Commentary [Grand Rapi...