As I awoke from sleep on a Monday I was reminded of a passage from 2 weeks previous that a person at my church had used in their talk and the Lord gave me a flash, a glimpse of something in my head that had to do with Jesus speaking to the crowd and He is telling them to follow Him because His yoke is easy and His burden is light. Matthew chapter 11: 28-30
Later that morning while in prayer and speaking with the Father and asking for Holy Spirit to open the Word to me, to speak with me and that I opened my mind to Him and Him alone, I asked the heavenly host to put a hedge of protection around me while I spoke with and prayed with the Father. Times like this are exemplary times to which the enemy will attempt to interject or head off what the Father is wanting to convey and will attempt to muddle or distort what the Father is communicating. Protection is warranted any time we speak with God.
Holy Spirit put a word picture in my mind and I saw glimpses of Jesus, a yoke, and me, we were together in this yoke and I saw that Jesus was beginning to struggle and I looked down and saw my legs were in mud up to my ankles. Then I felt Jesus really struggling and He was moving the yoke violently and I looked down again and now we were in mud almost up to our knees and Jesus was moving so violently that He was almost throwing me around and He yelled to me,"YOU'RE CARRYING TOO MUCH WEIGHT!"
I came out of this image and I began catching my breath, allowing Holy Spirit to unpack what I had just seen. What I have come to understand is Jesus and I are yoked together, He states that where He is wanted and invited (our heart) He and the Father will come and abide, therefore, He is with me always in all things and through whatever transpires in my life and that He is now connected to me and I to Him and together we move as one unit through my life's journey. What the image has conveyed to me is Jesus is yelling to get my attention because I am dragging us both down with the weight of the burdens I put upon myself and it not only affects me but Jesus also. He is with me in this and He will not leave me or break out of this yoke we are in but He will be using His superhuman efforts and strength to get me "unstuck," to break me free, to get me loose but I also have to help! I need to perform my own work in shedding what is not of Him, what is of my self-my flesh and to bring my life into better alignment with His will. In all fairness I was unaware of the weight I carry and did not realize how this burden I carry affects Jesus. Now can anything really affect Jesus? No, of course not but it is the idea that He has chosen to be linked with me and therefore where I go so too is He and we move and advance as one. He (God) tells us that He will neither leave us nor forsake us, that even if a mother could leave her child and abandon the child, He will not abandon us (me). Isaiah 49:15 (15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!)
Book of Romans chapter 8: 38-39 (For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.)
It is up to me to share my burdens With Jesus and when we share the load it will balance the yoke beam and when the load is balanced it can better be moved and lessened. Should all my burdens be discarded? Are some burdens meant to be kept? Are they only of me or of the Lord? We do have burdens that we share with the Lord. Proverbs 19:21 (Many plans are in a man’s mind, but it is the Lord’s purpose for him that will stand.)
So from this image I see more clearly how deeply Jesus connects and is attached to those who call out to Him and praise His name and invite Him into our heart. Please take heed from this experience of mine and seek Him today, unload and share your burden(s) with Him today and allow Him to move you forward. Allow Him to show you what is good to keep and share such as love for the Father and His glorious will for our life and the life of the whole world and what is needed to hit the trash heap because there is none of God's purpose in it therefore it is waste and dung and needs to go. Unburden, unload, walk more uprightly and smile for our joy comes in the morning. Psalm 30 vv5b; Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning
