his yoke is easy

Jesus said, My yoke is easy and my burden is light.

There are moments, aren't there, when a burden is just lifted. The weight of it just goes away as we are swept up in something else.

Spiritually, this happens sometimes.

It happens when we praise God sometimes.

Moving has been stressful for my family (of course. Moving is supposed to be one of the most stressful experiences in life.) Saturday evening I left Leah alone with the praise band while I did some work in the office, and when I came back about 45 minutes later, it was obvious that the weight of moving had lifted off her shoulders. It happens sometimes when we are praising God - singing a doxology, praying a psalm, reflecting on the attributes of God.

Omni present, omnipotent...all knowing, all powerful. It's what David was doing..."The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not want."

It's what Walter Chalmers Smith was doing in his meditation on I Timothy 1:11

Immortal, Invisible, God only wise. In light inaccesible, hid from our eyes.
Most blessed most glorious, the ancient of days. Almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise. http://www.worshipmap.com/lyrics/immortal.html

God wants to know about all our sorrows, but sometimes we need to do what the old preacher said and "stop telling God how big our problems are and start telling our problems how big our God is!"

Sometimes the weight of our burdens just lifts for a time, but most of the time, in my experience, we only find the peace of getting rid of the yoke the world puts on our shoulders by putting the yoke of Christ there. We do that over time by doing the things that help us know where Jesus wants us to walk and walking that way. Things like daily Bible reading and prayer, regular worship and serving those less fortunate, sharing in the sacraments and meeting regularly with other christians in Sunday school or Bible study. Christ has a yoke that will fit you perfectly. It's been designed for just you, and Jesus himself is on the other side of the yoke prepared to pull with you, if you will walk in his way.