Last week I put a short show together asking you, our listeners, for some feedback on our podcast. As I mentioned in that episode, Mark and I launched One Day Closer officially in October 2022…under the call of Ezekiel 33, where we learned the importance of the call to become a Watchmen of the Wall. Which is to say, be engaged with Life. If you see danger on the horizon, sound the alarm! “Danger Will Robinson!” As you may recall, that season of time, Joe Biden’s term as Commander in Chief was fraught with danger signs, from gender confusion, government policies that were counter to the core tenets of Americas founding.

Everything was upside down! Pronouns were more important than merit. Wide open borders without any attempt to Vet the incoming was a manufactured coup for redistricting and future voter fraud.

Chaos was the mantra. The crazier the assault or policy only opened another door for more chaos. It started with Drag Queen story hour at our pre-K schools. Which called into question ones gender, then rules about honoring ones pronouns and their identity. If you identified as a cat, the schools brought in litter boxes to support your delusion.

Gender confusion was all the rage and parents couldn’t wait to forever change their son or daughters gender so that they (the parents) could boost about how woke they were.

Point is, there was a lot to call out and expose during Biden’s term, a season when watchmen were sorely needed but were in short supply or afraid to speak out.

In the show prior, episode 265 entitled “And May God Rest His Soul”, I shared a story about Jesus’ yoke supposedly being an “easy one.” If you didn’t get a chance to listen to that show, I suggest you do so, especially if you are finding little “rest” in this journey we call “life.”

What I did manage to point out in that story, is that by taking up Christs yoke…strapping into his yoke does two things.

It requires that we bring our burdens to him, which engages both our trust and faith in Him…PLUS…it suggest that to be yoked together with him means we are able to walk side by side, shoulder to shoulder with Christ on the journey!

So this very topic came up this past Saturday at our men’s group. We were talking about how difficult surrendering and trusting can be sometimes…and one guy said…”yeah but how do you do that?

There were a lot of thoughts shared by other brothers, examples of how they handled something in the past or a testimony of how God answered their prayers, etc., etc., but I could tell the guy wasn’t satisfied with the advice. It appeared to me that he didn’t need a testimony but rather a visual. So I gave him one.

Imagine you have taken Christs invite and surrendered your burdens to Him. You’ve even gone so far as to trust Him with both the load and the outcome. AND you have submitted to locking the empty yoke collar to your neck. You are now side by side, shoulder to shoulder with Christ.

But when the collar gets tight on your neck or you feel like your pulling harder that Christ…maybe you are getting ahead of Christ? If you slow down, accept Gods pace over yours, the collar comes back into balance…equally distributed…to the point where you can’t even feel it.

Maybe that’s where you are suppose to be….not trying to get ahead of God…or pulling God…and not lagging behind either…but side by side, shoulder to shoulder.

Maybe that’s where peace, joy and rest fit into the equation. This is where Christ is. When you can’t feel the yoke at all, no pressures, your side of the yoke is aligned with Christ side…shoulders are square. I believe this is where the peace, joy and rest lives.

His pace is the right pace.

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