BEAR THE YOKE
READ: Lamentations 3:27-28
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:27
It is better for a man to bear the yoke when he is young. The “yoke” is the hard and difficult part of your life’s assignment. It is important that you take up the hard and difficult aspect of your life’s assignment as a child.
A young person will go through these experiences with ease. It is far better for a young man to bear the yoke in his youth! In the ministry, there are yokes that are heavy burdens of ministry. There are also lighter and easier sections of ministry. When people do not accept to bear the yoke in their youth, they set themselves up for failure.
Never forget this important truth: there is a yoke/difficult part of ministry. It is good that you pass through this stage in your youth. “It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth” (Lamentations 3:27).
Indeed, there are other yokes that you must bear in your youth. Every young man becomes an old man. Every man has sexual desires and needs. When you begin the ministry as a young man, you will encounter sexual desires and temptations. You will be rigorously tested in your youth. When you bear this yoke in your youth, you are likely to do well later on.
Those who mess around with fornication, adultery and other forms of immorality in their youth, grow up to become deceptive, immoral and perverted men. Those who do not overcome this yoke in their youth often become abusers of young ladies in the congregation. As the years go by, these people who do not bear the yoke in their youth are faced with the realities of uncured immorality that they did not resist in their youth. It is important to bear your yoke in your youth!