How to lighten your load (Matt 11:30 “My yoke is easy, my burden is light“)

In Matthew 11:28-30, Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest… for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Today, we don’t do much work with oxen, so this passage can be difficult to understand. In this passage, Jesus is removing the burdensome teaching of the religious leaders and offering the yoke of his partnership to help carry our burdens, train us in the way we should go, and make our path straight. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES: The sinful woman who anointed Jesus’ feet: Luke 7:36-39 (NIV) “When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them. When the Pharisee who had invite