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| Matthew 11:25-30 |
When our hearts are as open and trusting as little children to God’s love and truth
we will find the peace and rest that we desperately long for.
In today’s Gospel Jesus uses the metaphor of a yoke (not the egg) to teach us about how we are to live our lives. A yoke is a piece of wood that is placed around the neck and shoulders of two animals walking side by side pulling something behind them (carriage, tilling equipment, etc.). The yoke keeps the animals moving at the same pace so that they pull what is behind them evenly.
In this analogy Jesus is walking with us and promises that if we allow God’s yoke to be placed upon us that it will help us to walk happily step by step with Jesus. The yoke can represent listening to God’s voice in prayer and following God’s laws given through Jesus and the Church. Sometimes placing the yoke of God’s message around us and asking us to walk at God’s pace is something that can seem violent or constrictive but Jesus promises us that the God who made us knows what will make us most happy and that His yoke is not heavy, painful or burdensome, but light and easy.
In today’s Gospel Jesus tells us that the “wise and the learned” have not heard God’s message but that God has “revealed them to little ones”; we are called to be as trusting and open as a young child to God the Father even though sometimes we rebel like spoiled children when we are told that someone knows what is better for us. When we slow down enough and allow Jesus to walk with us, allowing Jesus to set the pace, we will be happier and more full of peace and joy then we could ever be without Him.
Why do we think that setting our own varied pace or making our own decisions without asking God will make us happier than walking pace by pace with Him who made us and loves us more than we could ever know?
Jesus I trust in you.
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