The Heavy Yoke

A yoke is a metaphor for shared labor and/or harsh oppression. The choices made by Rehoboam and Jeroboam illustrate how we all wear yokes, and every yoke is a heavy yoke, except Jesus’ yoke. As we consider the yokes of followership, of leadership, and ultimately of worship, it drives us away from idols toward Jesus, who bore the yoke of sin so that we might wear the yoke of salvation.