Mat 11:30 For my yoke [is] easy, and my burden is light.

"Easy" is chrêstos, which means "useful," "good of its kind," and "serviceable." However, in a moral sense, it is the opposite of kakos, which means "bad."

"Burden" is phortion, which means "a load," "burden," and "frieght." This was also a term used for the unborn child carried by a mother.

"Light" is elaphros, which specifically means "light in weight" and "easy to bear."

Christ is saying something about himself here and about our lives. We are all burdened, but if we understand our lives correctly, the mission that we are given is appropriate to our abilities and the load we are given to carry is easy. The ease comes simply from faith.

Post like this, where Christ talks about his burdens, get me thinking about the divinity of Christ lately and what it means. When I was younger, my feeling was the Christ's death, however, painful, was not like human death because human death carries the burden of uncertainly. Christ knew where he was going and where he came from. We do not.

My general sense is that humans debating divinity are a little like cockroaches discussing nuclear energy. We know too little about the subject to make much sense on it, which is perhaps why Christ addresses human issues, not the divine. For me, the Trinity is our perception of God on three different levels. The Father is the creator of the physical universe with which we constantly interact and cannot explain. The Son is the communicator who explains in words our place in the world and the nature of human society. The Spirit is our personal contact with the spiritual and divine. We experience God physically, mentally, and spiritually. God is one, but our perceptions as human are limited into how we can experience God.

However, this reduces Christ to a intellectual concept and he was more than that. He was a physical man, whi lived and died and lives still. How can a man be God? Are we just doing like the pagans and making a god out of our leaders?

Christ's divinity is mysterious, but to the degree we can understand divinity at all, we can know more about it. Christ was a living contradiction, the perfect man, in a world where man is inherently limited and flawed. How can a man be perfect? Christ tells us himself, calling us all gods. We all have God within us but the limitations of our human awareness blocks us from seeing and experiencing the divine. Christ did not have that limitation. He experienced divinity directly. One of the reasons we are protected from experiencing divinity directly is that a direct perception of God destroys our freedom. Knowing God is becoming one with God.

What Christ seems to describe, from the beatitudes on, is a progression of spiritual development where we become one with God. For humans, we are always on the journey. Christ was different from regular people in that he stands both at the beginning and the end of that particular path.