“Take my yoke upon you” — Jesus Christ.
Yoke. That’s an idiom for discipleship. The yoke like a cattle yoke. It ties one ox to another to pull a cart or attaches an ox or pair of oxen to a plough. Taking Christ’s yoke is submitting to Christ as teacher - the disciple submits to being tied to the teacher in order to learn from the teacher. The apprentice commits to the trainer for a course program. Even if you think maybe the scriptural records of teachings of Christ and Christ’s apostles is mistranslated, misunderstood, muddied water, when we read versions we have today, the yoke of Christ as teacher is still there to be taken, in submission to the living Christ as our living teacher, allowing Him the responsibility to reach us with His teachings. He is so powerful, as the spiritually empowered human lord there in Heaven next to God the Father, that He can reach us to teach us. And He will never again die now He is alive from the dead forever. The same as He was long ago and the same as He will be forever. Let us take His yoke upon us. The Holy Spirit will take from what is Christ’s (and all things are given to Christ by the Father) and make it known to us. Blessed be God forever.
