How to Get Rid of Yourself

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HOW TO GET RID OF YOURSELF By Louis Albert Banks

Christ proposes to give a man rest of soul by getting him out of himself and causing him to forget himself in some new service. othing is more wearing or a more fruitful source of unhappiness in the long run than to be self-centered. If our thoughts and plans, our hopes and fears, our ideals and ambitions, all center in our own personal success, and in adding to our own personal comfort and happiness, there must come many a day of infinite self-disgust and weariness when life does not seem to be worth living. Those people who are yawning themselves out of life because they have found everything they have tried to be a failure, are doing it because they have not learned that there is anything better to do than to take care of themselves. Poverty and riches have little to do with the case. You will find just as many well-to-do as you will find poor people for whom life has lost its spice and enthusiasm. It is not a question of capital but of character. ow Christ's way to freshen life and fill it with hope and courage is to draw us out of our own yoke of sorrows and trials and get us into a new yoke, a new harness, and thus interest us in new burdenSo And he declares that in so doing the 100

HOW TO GET RID OF YOURSELF loi yoke will seem easier, the burden lighter, and we shall find rest unto our souls.

Of course we know what Christ's yoke is. When he was here on earth in the flesh, all the troubles and needs of the blind and the deaf, of the hungry and the lame, of the lepers and the fever-stricken, all the sorrows of men, from a withered hand to a demoniac possession, interested him, aroused his sympathy and became a part of his burden and yoke. Christ yoked himself to all the sorrows of mankind. Wherever a man was found who had trouble, whether a man anxious about his sick boy or a mother following her son to the tomb, or smaller matters — as where men had fished all night and had caught nothing — Christ entered into the case with sympathy and helpfulness and added it to his burden. And if we are to take up Christ's burden and wear his yoke, we must be yoked with the sorrows and troubles of men, and a part of our burden will be to try to lift the world up toward God and to help every sad heart toward the light. Yet, thank God, that is only half the case. Christ's yoke is easy and his burden is light because, while he is yoked with the sorrows and troubles of men and women on the one hand, he is for that very reason yoked on the other side with all the wisdom and power and blessedness of Almighty God. That is what makes the burden light and the yoke easy. Many a man who works in the foundry or the shop for long hours goes through

102 HOW TO GET RID OF YOURSELF the whole day with a light heart because of his yoke — fellowship with a loving wife and children at home. On the one hand he is yoked to long hours and hard work, but on the other his j^oke takes hold of love and gentleness and thankful appreciation, and that makes his yoke easy and

his burden light. So when for Christ's sake we share with our weaker brother and add his burden to our own shoulders, the doubled burden is made lighter because it brings us into happy fellowship with our divine Lord. As we come into fellowship with Jesus, and are yoked with him in burden-bearing and in labors of love, he opens to us the secrets of God's tender care over those who love and serve him. In this way we get rid of our doubts and fears concerning God's providential care over us. o one who knows God as Christ does, who looks up into the Heavenly Father's face with that perfect spirit of childhood, can doubt that God intends good for his children and is able to bring it about. Christ's perfect confidence in God comes out in the illustrations which he uses to show us the completeness of God's care. One day it is the lilies to which he points, asking his friends to mark how they grow and with what beauty they are clothed, and drawing the assuring lesson that the God who paints the lily with such resplendent colors will not forget the children made in his own image and likeness. Another day he points to the sparrow — a little cheap thing, two sold for

HOW TO GET RID OF YOURSELF 103 a farthing and five for two farthings, and yet not one of them forgotten by God. And if he cares for the little bird he surely will not forget his children. What a precious thing it is to have that kind of a faith in God ! And you can only obtain it by getting rid of yourself in a working fellowship with Jesus Christ. If you will go into partnerhip with the Saviour and seek every day to bring

blessings to somebody, feeling as he does that every man you can help is your neighbor and that everything that hurts your brother is your own personal enemy, thus putting your shoulders in close touch with Jesus underneath all the burdens of humanity, you will be brought into such a relation to God that the spiritual and the supernatural will appear real to you. In the greatest emergencies of Christ's burden bearing, in his temptation in the wilderness, and in the agony of the Garden of Gethsemane, angels came and comforted him; and angels will come to you and soothe you when you need them if you are wearing Christ's yoke and bearing his burden.

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