But then, there is another class of persons who serve God willingly.  This takes in all those who know and love him.  He speaks of them, in this parable as “his own servants.”  When they find out what he has done for them, the thought of it fills their hearts with love; and then they desire to serve him, and do all he tells them to do, in order to show their love to him.  And this is what Jesus means when he says—­“Take my yoke upon you; for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light,” When we really love a person, anything that we can do for that person is easy and pleasant to us.  And so it is the great love for Jesus, that his people have, which makes his yoke easy, and his burden light to them.

“How to Become a Willing Servant to Jesus.”  A little boy came to his grandmother one day, and asked her how he could become a Christian.  She answered very simply, “Ask Jesus to give you a new heart, and believe he does it when you ask him.”

“Is that all?” said the little fellow joyfully; “oh! that is easy enough.”  So he went to his room, and kneeling beside his bed, asked Jesus to give him a new heart.  He believed that the dear Saviour, who loves little children, did hear and answer his prayer.  And he left his room with a happy heart, for he felt sure that he was now one of Christ’s own loving children, and willing servants.  And this is the way in which we must take the yoke of Jesus upon us, and become his willing servants.  And then in everything that we do we can be serving him.  As St. Paul says—­“whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever we do, we can do all to the glory of God.”

A good man once said “that if God should send two angels down from heaven, and should tell one of them to sit on a throne and rule a kingdom, and the other to sweep the streets of a city, the latter would feel that he was serving God as acceptably in handling his broom as his brother angel was in holding his sceptre.  And this is true.  We see the same illustrated in the fable of: 

“The Stream and the Mill.”  “I notice,” said the stream to the mill, “that you grind beans as well and as cheerfully as you do the finest wheat.”  “Certainly,” said the mill; “what am I here for but to grind? and so long as I work, what does it signify to me what the work is?  My business is to serve my master, and I am not a whit more useful when I turn out the finest flour than when I turn out the coarsest meal.  My honor is, not in doing fine work, but in doing any thing that is given me to do in the best way that I can.”  That is true.  And this is just the way in which Jesus wishes us to serve him when he says to “his own servants,” “Occupy till I come.”  This means serve me, in everything, as you would do if you saw me standing by your side.