My Burdens?

   "Whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth." How petty our complaining is! Our Lord begins to bring us into the place where we can have communion with Him, and we groan and say - "O Lord, let me be like other people!" Jesus is asking us to take one end of the yoke - "My yoke is easy, get alongside Me and we will pull together." Are you identified with the Lord Jesus like that? If so, you will thank God for the pressure of His hand." (Oswald Chambers)

   Paul says that I am to be identified with Christ in His suffering. Jesus, Himself, says that we will have troubles and have burdens to bear. Then I ask myself, where are my sufferings and troubles? What are my burdens to bear? Do I have even the foggiest of notions what these are?

   I don't think that I am the only one sitting in pews Sunday after Sunday, living the good life, and thanking God for His blessings in my life. Too much of the time my prayer mantra does not get past the "God is Great, God is Good, let us thank Him for our Food".

   I have been in church for most all of my 75 years, and it has only been in the past few that I have even thought about the depths of what real Christian living is all about. Outwardly I looked really good, but God knew the heart.

   I don't really want to suffer trials and troubles. I don't really want a lot of burdens to bear, but I do want to know Jesus Christ in the fullness of His life, and this includes all of the above. How can I ever know what sharing the yoke with Jesus means unless He is the one pulling along side me in all of this?

   God is great and God is good, but my thanks needs to be for more than just the food.