So, when Jesus said:
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matt. 11:29-30)
He was exaggerating? Lying? Minimizing? What?
Considering the burdens the Pharisees were placing on others, if Christianity is that hard in light of Jesus comment indicating otherwise, it would mean the person doesn’t have a real good grasp of what Christianity is all about.
I mean, really. Who are we going to believe here?
Jesus who says His burden is light?
The the Catholic church which makes Christianity such a convoluted, complicated mess that nobody can make it?
STF-Christianity to me is not easy,it costs us something.
BB-”So, when Jesus said:
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. (Matt. 11:29-30)
He was exaggerating? Lying? Minimizing? What?””
This does not mean we will not suffer persecution by denying ourselves,it means we can find comfort and peace in the persecution by trusting in Christ,dear sister.Truly denying ourselves is NOT any easy thing to do
From the words of the late Bishop Sheen...
“Unless there is a cross, in our lives, there will never be a resurrection. The Christian Law of Life IS ‘We have to die in order to live’ (cf Mt 10:38-39). Now I do not mean and He did not mean physically dying, He meant mortification, self-denial. The application of the Cross in our lives. So that, unless we die to ourselves we cannot live with Him. We do not like the Cross in our lives. As a matter of fact, we would like to escape it…that’s the essence of the demonic, the escape from the mortification, the Cross and the penance