CHRIST the YOKE-SHARER: “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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light” (Mt 11:29-30). “The reason why His yoke is easy…is that every necessary major step forward in the development of holiness is achieved not by what we do for Christ but what He does for us, not by our efforts but by His power. To start with, Christ does not simply call on us to live a Christ-like life: He first implants within us His very own life, so that we then have the potential and wherewithal to live a Christ-like life. After all, it would be no good telling someone to write a symphony unless they had first been given special musical talent. So we find that Christ’s very first lesson on holiness will be this: that He has the power to implant within us the life of the Holy Spirit…On terms like these, then, anyone can become holy.” —David W. Gooding, In the School of Christ, pp 15-16