How Can Christ’s Yoke Be Easy?

You have given us a remedy for every delusion, and by God’s grace all the tricks of the devil that troubled us have been exposed by your teaching. So we beg you also to explain to us this saying in the gospel: “My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” For it seems rather at odds with the saying of the prophet, “Because of the words of your lips I have kept hard ways”; and the apostle, too, says, “All who want to live godly lives in Christ suffer persecution.” But whatever is hard and full of persecution cannot be easy and light. [a]