Monday | 22 December 2025
When Jesus says to us, ‘Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me’, He is inviting us to join His offering and suffering journey. Mat 11:29. Each wounding event in the course of His journey was a travail involving death, burial and resurrection. Through this travail, Christ died to sin as He laid down His life for us and fulfilled the works of obedience that belong to our sonship. Rom 6:10. Heb 5:8‑9. Significantly, Christ was being restored at the end of each wound in preparation for the lesson and the multiplication of life that belonged to the next wound. Heb 12:2.
When Christ calls us to be yoked to Him, we are being delivered to a choice. This is the choice: ‘Do you want to be a son?’ The Holy Spirit, who dwells with us, brings this conviction to us. Joh 14:16‑18. Joh 16:8. The response of those who are poor in spirit is, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!’ Mar 9:24. This is the expression of a person who wants to be a son, but recognises their inadequacy for this calling.
In response to this request for help, the Spirit, who is our Helper, enables us to confess, ‘Abba, Father’; ‘You are my Father’. That is, we confess that we have a name, and that we have works to do in the fellowship of Christ’s offering and sufferings as a member of His body. We understand this because the Spirit, who is in us, bears witness with our spirit that we are a son of God. As a son, we are an heir of God, and a joint heir with Christ. We receive this inheritance as we are glorified with Him, as long as we suffer with Him in the fellowship of His travail. Rom 8:15‑17. By the Spirit, we come boldly to the throne of grace where we obtain mercy and grace to bind, or yoke, us to Christ. Heb 4:16. We also receive the capacity of Eternal Spirit, from the Holy Spirit, to participate in the travail of Christ.
Further Study:
Romans 8
References:
Mat 11:29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Rom 6:10
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Heb 5:8-9
Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. And having been perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Heb 12:2
Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Joh 14:16-18
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever — the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.
Joh 16:8
And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement.
Mar 9:24
Immediately, the father of the child cried out and said with tears, ‘Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!’
Rom 8:15-17
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father’. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs — heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
Heb 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.