His Yoke is Easy, His Burden is Light
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:30) As a brand-new believer, I began to think to myself, it’s too hard to be a Christian. None of my old friends could understand why I was acting so differently. I didn’t really understand it myself. The things I liked to do my whole adult life, suddenly lost interest to me. At that time, all I wanted to do was read the Bible and other Christian materials. I wanted to find out as much as I could, as fast as I could about my new beliefs. Before too long, I was burdened to get everyone to know Jesus the way I did. I thought if I tried to keep one foot in the world with my old friends and the other in the church, I could eventually lead my lost friends to Christ. I only made it extremely hard on myself to be a believer. I always had to be on guard as to which world I was in. That was a very heavy load to carry around. It was easy to behave righteously when I was in church, but I could backslide to my old self pret...