Today, with Londoners grumbling under
the yoke of belt - tightening austerity measures, the city's appetite for lasers and massive sports arenas seems to be shrinking fast.
A new phrase from Japan is poka -
yoke, meaning «avoid error.»
They understand that any law relaxing rules for illegals has no hope of Republican support unless it is
yoked to skilled - immigrant reform.
Not long ago it wasn't that uncommon to see a US president fly to Saudi Arabia to plead for more production and relief from the economic
yoke of high oil prices.
But if that path is taken the actions needed to reduce the one trillion dollar budget deficit will become as much
a yoke around its economy as the PIGS deficits are on their economies.
If you explore their world, it won't take long to come across a reference to this passage: «Do not be
yoked together with unbelievers.
But science will say the egg
yoke is good, no bad, no good, no bad again and no one sees the uncertainty of science?
Must really tick you off that people can now think for themselves, go against your grain, and break
the yoke of religion from around their throats.
Under
the yoke of self - centeredness and self - seeking is where we find many skeptics today.
As Athanasius, when the world awoke to find itself ensconced in heresy, so we whose world must wear a harsher
yoke are called to Athanasian constancy.
Take
my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your soul.
For
my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.
To his reflexive homo faber they are animal laborans, their democratic - farmer - labor party full of all - too - human beasts of burden, working
the yoke beneath preposterously too - high piles of individuality.
can some one site one example from the new testament of a Christian who was
yoked to the military?
But giving according to some calculated, prescribed amount is to place people back under
the yoke of slavery.
Let me leave self - destruction to the young who need not fear, not yet, the fatal stroke that lifted from my friend addiction's
yoke.
1 Timothy 6:1 - 5 (NRSV) Let all who are under
the yoke of slavery regard their masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be blasphemed.
If it wasn't for french catholics in the American Revolution, you would still be under
the yoke of the british monarchy.
Unfortunately, dropping ALL Patheos blogs is unhelpful — sites like Unequally
Yoked (Leah Libresco), Bad Catholic (Marc Barnes) and Cranach (Gene Veith) are all maintained by individuals, and joined Patheos after their initial founding.
The Bible teaches that our wedded love should never be, given our opposite views (read unevenly
yoked), yet it is stronger than ever.
29 Take
My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.
«When we rightly celebrate what happened 50 years ago today, we do so best by turning to him and saying, «Yes, we take
your yoke on our shoulders with you»».
And then I read — I think it's in Luke — Jesus says, «Take
my yoke and learn from me, for I am lowly and humble in spirit, and with me you'll find rest for your souls.»
There is much comfort for the believer to be found in scripture and Jesus did say His burden was easy and
his yoke was light.
The bible also records Paul instructing believers not to
yoked to non-believers, again, this is not an interracial thing either.
For
my yoke is easy and my burden is light.»
And he promises, his burdens are light,
his yoke is easy, there is rest for our souls in him.
What is burdensome when we take on
the yoke of Christ?
Fred and I have determined that the equally
yoked question should not be about us having the same faith, but rather, deep faith.
From Veronica: Dana, how do you deal with the idea of being «unequally
yoked» and the criticism you must get for that?
The burden of
that yoke is lightened again and again by friends and prayer, by faith and most of all by hope.
2 [he wears
a yoke to symbolize the «subjugation» of the peoples]; Ezekiel iv.
It is my sense that Paul was warning the early church not to be «
yoked» with folks who didn't allow God to make a real difference in their lives — inside and out.
«nothing should be... done or said that would make them carry
their yoke unwillingly: but rather prudence and charity... should be shown in such a way that slaves... should offer obedience to their masters.»
Take
my yoke upon you, and learn from me for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Interfaith and interdenominational courtships are sprinkled with «unequally
yoked» arguments from the skeptics.
We are told only that Elisha «ran after Elijah,» kissed his parents, sacrificed to the Lord
his yoke of oxen — talk about burning bridges — and «set out and followed Elijah, and became his servant» (1 Kings 19:21).
Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman
yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.
The yoke of Jesus is light because He lovingly bears the load.
Take
my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
When I quoted «do away with
the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk» it was in the context of your admission «I lean towards the pointing finger» you have not address this.
We teach young people that they are to throw off the parental
yoke and assert their individuality.
From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers of the earth and the skies to be brought under God's
yoke as completely as he would wish.
Play is «the means the powerless use to shake off
their yoke.
Coming down from the mountain, Elijah finds his successor working behind 12
yoke of oxen, plowing his family's field.
The attentive reader remembers how Elisha kissed his folks goodbye, slaughtered
his yoke of oxen, and not only followed Elijah but stuck to him like a burr: «As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.»
My faith was a heavy
yoke.
Was this an opportunity that Elisha had been waiting for without realizing it — the chance to break away from
the yoke of work and family and a lifetime of fields to be plowed?
Yoked to the memory of the Holocaust - that is what he writes - and he goes on as follows: «Whether we like it or not, the statute of limitations is running out on the Holocaust.»
«But we are still under
the yoke of bondage because we all come to the community with visions of what it should be rather than seeing what it actually is.»