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Thank you for sharing this important passage of scripture. I never thought about it in this way. I wondered why yokes seemed more easy and why it was written this way. However, explaining this as being a way of being Free, especially when we share our burden with Christ and His Family members, helps me understand God's Gospel and keep His Commandments.
In addition to its literal meaning, the concept of a yoke also appears in many scriptures as a metaphor for bondage or servitude. What does it mean to take Christ's yoke upon us? To humbly do his will and allow him to guide and direct our lives. If HE SAID IT WAS LIGHT IT IS.
Ok, I can see the difference between the "lawful" and the "lawless". But how do you/we say light and easy on the one hand and then look for the "narrow gate" which the road to is hard and few will find - on the other hand?
Narrow gates to the Kingdom and wide gates to the lake of fire are idioms. It says that to enter into the lake of Fire, you can do whatever you want. You can give up yourselves for temptations and no need to keep the Law. But to enter the Kingdom, you need to resist all of them. All the temptations and all the trials. To live according to The Law in this Lawless world is hard. That's why He compared them with wide gate and narrow gate.
That's why Moses said "They aren't in Heaven so that you may say who can bring them to us. They aren't across the waters so that you may say who can go and bring that for us. But they are very near, in your hearts".
