Today is my middle daughter’s birthday.  How fun to watch our kids grow into such beautiful children of God.

I didn’t post yesterday.  I needed to be in town to get 4 of my grandkids to their schools.  Their mom was heading to a training early in the morning so I was the breakfast cook and taxi service.  It was rather cute and fun.

I want to back up to where I was in this blog from two days ago.  God had given me new insights about the lack of freedom I was sensing the previous couple weeks.  The awakening for me was that I had completely forgotten during those couple weeks who I was.  The content of the 7-Pillars class was only reminding me of my abusive past.  The memories were so vivid that I momentarily forgot I was a new creation.  I had become the old self who had lived his life hiding that abused past.  However, in finding the new creation again, the event of these two weeks have helped anchor the truth for me that my old self is dead.  I can be free from it.  It was in abiding in Christ and determining to stay there trusting that He provided the truth once again of who He is and who I am in Him.

In Matthew 11:27-30 Jesus tells the crowd with him, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”  That verse was never true for me when I tried to accept this yoke and put it on my old self.  My personal burden was already too heavy and putting a yoke around it was impossible.  However, it is on the new creation God gives once we accept Christ into our lives where we find the truth of these verses.  The weight of the burden Christ carries when we remain in Him as the new creation.  The yoke he gives us guides us in the direction He wants us for the day.  This is the truth I want to keep before each day as I move forward.