Walkington's Works

[Rippon]

Gleanings In The Godhead

The Leadership of Christ

If we find by experience that Christ's yoke is easy and His burden is light , then what must be said of a vast number of professing Christians who , by by their own conduct , often avow that the Lord's service is burdensome ? Though members of evangelical churches , may we conclude that they are of the class who have a name that they live , and yet are dead ( Revelation 3:1 ) ? Certainly we cannot allow that Christ made a false prediction of His yoke . Then only one alternative is left . We are obliged to regard as strangers to godliness those who find a life of communion with the Lord and devotedness to His service dull or irksome .

 

[Rippon]

Gleanings In The Godhead

Do not misunderstand this point . We are not affirming the Christian life is nothing but a bed of roses , or that when a person comes to Christ and takes His yoke that his troubles end . Not so . Instead , in a real sense his troubles only then begin . It is written , "Yea , and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution" ( 2 Timothy 3:12 ) . Wearing the yoke of Christ unites us to Him , and union with Him brings us into "fellowship with His sufferings." The members of Christ's body share the experience of their Head . The world hated and persecuted Him , and it hates those who bear His image .

( From :The Leadership Of Christ )