When I was a child in the 1950s, my grandpa had this old barn on the Land that he settle on a government land grant given for free to anyone who would fam it in the late 1800s. 280 acres best I remember . In this barn he milked four Jersey cows and had a milk run delivery. He set up this galvanized horse troth where he could build a fire under it to boil water and rigged an old washing machine with a brush attached where he could skald and clean the inside of the glass milk bottles. My job, and I was about 8 years old was to run the separator, separating the cream from the milk and had this devise mounr=ted to the wall where I would insert this paper stopper in the top of those bottles.
One day I noticed this wooden thing on the wall and asked him about it for what it was. He said that is an Oxen yoke. He began to tell me about how he made it from an oak tree and plowed those field with Oxen, and went to his tools and pulled out this draw knife. He took that yoke off the wall and begin to explain to me how it worked and said.
If the yoke does not fit the Ox and it hurts he will not pull the plow so I take this knife and fit it to the oxen shoulders. For if one of the ox does not fit the yoke there is no way that you can plow a straight furrow.
I never forgot that story and later in life in my late twenties when I gave my life over to God and read do not be unequally yoked with one another for if you are there is no way that you can perform that perfect product.
that you may take up that cross, that same cross, with the one that Jesus carried alone by those who could not be equally yoked with him in the Father.
And from what I read in this forum, I have not heard from one at alll who is equally yoked with Jesus to pull that same load from the Lord of it that he called Father.
Here is what they say about that. No one can be like Jesus, he was god, no one can be perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect as Jesus was. And they say that Jesus was the only child that God had, a son to pull that load by himself when it is you who is supposed to pick up that same load as Jesus picked up and carried it to his death by men who could not yoke themselves to the same.
Your yoke hurts your pride for a belief instead of being the one who is suppose to be equal with him in the Father.
One day I noticed this wooden thing on the wall and asked him about it for what it was. He said that is an Oxen yoke. He began to tell me about how he made it from an oak tree and plowed those field with Oxen, and went to his tools and pulled out this draw knife. He took that yoke off the wall and begin to explain to me how it worked and said.
If the yoke does not fit the Ox and it hurts he will not pull the plow so I take this knife and fit it to the oxen shoulders. For if one of the ox does not fit the yoke there is no way that you can plow a straight furrow.
I never forgot that story and later in life in my late twenties when I gave my life over to God and read do not be unequally yoked with one another for if you are there is no way that you can perform that perfect product.
that you may take up that cross, that same cross, with the one that Jesus carried alone by those who could not be equally yoked with him in the Father.
And from what I read in this forum, I have not heard from one at alll who is equally yoked with Jesus to pull that same load from the Lord of it that he called Father.
Here is what they say about that. No one can be like Jesus, he was god, no one can be perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect as Jesus was. And they say that Jesus was the only child that God had, a son to pull that load by himself when it is you who is supposed to pick up that same load as Jesus picked up and carried it to his death by men who could not yoke themselves to the same.
Your yoke hurts your pride for a belief instead of being the one who is suppose to be equal with him in the Father.
