Jesus Christ Is Both A Burden And A Joy

And the one who does not take his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.  The one who has found his life will lose it, and the one who has lost his life on My account will find it.-(Matthew 10:38-39)

Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose.  Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves;  do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.  Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as he already existed in the form of God [being His son], did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.  For this reason also God highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is lord, to the glory of God the Father. -(Philippians 2:1-11)