========================================================================
  HIS YOKE IS EASY
  by E. Stanley Jones
========================================================================

Summary: When you surrender to Christ, you find joy, well-being, and
inner excitement in taking on the world's problems and living a life of
creative activity.

Topics: "Surrender To God", "Christian Service"
Scripture References: Matthew 11:30, Matthew 16:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 2:20, Ephesians 2:10

------------------------------------------------------------------------
DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------------------------------

E. Stanley Jones emphasizes the concept of surrendering to God,
expressing how saying 'Lord, You've got me' has been transformative in
his life. He explains that surrendering to Christ leads to taking on the
world's troubles and caring deeply for others, ultimately finding joy,
well-being, and purpose in serving. Jones illustrates that surrendering
to God is like a wire surrendering to a dynamo, a canvas surrendering to
an artist, or ink surrendering to a writer, resulting in a life filled
with creativity, light, and love.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
CONTENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The phrase I've said most in life is this one: "Lord, You've got me."
And I've meant it. And it works -- works gloriously. His yoke is easy
and His burden is light. Why? Because He puts nothing on you? On the
contrary, you come to Him and He will dump the world and its troubles
into your heart. You begin to care. I came to Him all unsuspecting. I
wanted salvation and found in taking it I wanted the salvation of the
world. At eighty-three I'm taking more and more projects upon myself --
world projects. And the more I take on myself, the more I'm taken over
by joy, by well-being, by inner excitement, by adventure, by growth, by
life.

His yoke is easy because His yoke is my yearning. It gives me the very
thing I'm made for -- creative activity.

When I surrender to Him, it is the same surrender a wire, unattached and
noncreative, makes when it surrenders to a dynamo: it throbs with light
and power. The same surrender which paint makes when it surrenders to an
artist: mere color becomes a living picture. The same surrender which
ink makes when it surrenders to a writer: mere print becomes words that
burn and bless and enlighten. When you surrender to Christ, you
surrender to the most creative and dynamic Person on this or any other
planet. You begin to be alive with His life, enlightened with His light,
loving with His love. You have surrendered to creativity. Therefore His
yoke is easy, for you are made by the Creator for creation.

========================================================================
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/e-stanley-jones/his-yoke-is-easy/
========================================================================