His Yoke is Easy

 

  This is John T. Faris.  He lived 1871-1949.  He was a writer, a Presbyterian minister, and a magazine publisher.  This is a good meditation he wrote.

A man was carrying a heavy basket.  His son asked to help him.  The father cut a stick and placed it through the handle of the basket so that the end toward himself was very short, while the end toward the boy was three or four times as long.  Each took hold of his end of the stick, and the basket was lifted and easily carried.  The son was bearing the burden with the father, but he found the work easy and light because his father assumed the heavy end of the stick.  Just so it is when we bear the yoke with Christ; He sees to it that the burden laid on us is light; He carried the heavy end.