A light burden

How often do I feel burdened by obey God’s command? How often do I make them out to be more than they actually are? And how many times does God remind me that that’s not how it is supposed to be.

I was thumbing through my Bible a little bit ago looking for the “high priest” passage and came across something that caught my eye big time.

“For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world – our faith.” 1 John 5:3-4

Obeying God is how we show our love to Him. It’s really simple if we get ourselves out of the way. And really, life is a lot easier when we actually obey Him. He lays it out pretty clear all throughout the Bible what it is we are to obey, just take a look at the 10 commandments.

Jesus says in Matthew 11:28-30 that His yoke is easy and His burden is light. He takes the things that weigh us down and keep us from living in freedom upon Himself; He did that when He took the cross for us.

All God asks of us is to come to Him, come to Christ and lay down our own burdens and take up His yoke – let Him walk beside us and carry the weight that we are unable to carry. It’s not an obligation, it’s not a burden, it’s not even doing something that is taking time out of other things we could be doing. It is simply trusting Him to be at the center of our lives and living from that.