Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines ‘Yoking’ as ‘joining with’. Jesus asked us, his believers, to take His yoke upon ourselves and to learn from him. In other words, he want us to join with him. Just as an ox cannot go on its own way, when it is yoked with another, as they prepare the soil, when we are yoked together with Jesus Christ, we cannot go after our own selfish and sinful desires, as we co-labor (work together) in preparing the hearts of the unsaved to receive the gospel truth.
We can be yoked with the liberty of Christ Jesus or we can be yoked with the bondage of sin. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1).
Matthew 11:28-30 (KJV)
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Galatians 5:1 (KJV)
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
