From the book, “Renovation of the Heart” by Dallas Willard – The Cries of the Soul Page 209
“Once we clearly acknowledge the soul, we can learn to hear its cries. Jesus heard its cries from the wearied humanity he saw around him. He saw the souls desperate need in those who struggled with the overwhelming tasks of their life. Such weariness and endless labor was, to him, a sure sign of a soul not properly rooted in God – a soul, in effect, on its own. He saw the multitudes around him and it tore his heart, for they were, “distressed and downcast” like “sheep without a shepherd”. (Matthew 9:36). And he invited such people to come and become his students (Learn of me) by yoking themselves to him – that is, letting him show them how he would pull their load. He is not ‘above’ this, as earthly ‘great ones’ are, for he is meek and lowly of heart. (Matthew 11:28-30). . . . . Being in his yoke is not a matter of taking on additional labor to crush us all the more, but a matter of learning how to use his strength and ours together to bear our load and his. We find his yoke an easy one and his burden a light one because, in learning from him, we have found rest to our soul.What we have learned is, primarily, to rest our soul in God. Rest to our soul is rest in God.”