
The Heavy Yoke of Religion
The Pharisees began as an attempt to know practically how to walk in a way that pleased God. But by Jesus’s time, the laws and regulations they had created and placed upon the backs of the Israelites were a very heavy burden. The mask of religious adherence is always a great weight, and it grows heavier and heavier the longer we choose to stay under it. Only when we turn to Jesus and take His yoke upon us, can truly find rest.









