Good Friday
Jesus: Come to me all you who are tired and heavily burdened, for I am lowly (meek) and humble in heart. My yolk is easy and my burden is light.
He says "come" but my addictions are something I don’t want to part with. The spirit desires but the flesh does not.
Does this fit with Christ? His "passion" was not the only emotion he experienced this day. I think of passion as kind of an emotional drive. He didn’t want to die in that way. He wrestled, but chose the greater good. He chose to submit to the will of the Father. Is the Father’s yolk easy or light? Is it not harder than the way of the flesh? that broad and downhill way that leads to pain, loss, destruction, and death. The Father’s yolk didn’t look easy to Jesus, or to me. Jesus’ way is more difficult than what he’d lead me through. Was the Father’s suffering even greater than the Christ’s?
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The big controversy worth being killed over in this Good Friday we remember is that Jesus was an enemy of the state when He agreed that He was King. Caesar alone was the king, according to law. And as king, Caesar was a god in their minds.
The Greeks too were looking for a divine king.

Note these 8 steps in inaugurating a new Caesar:
1 The Praetorian Guard would be gathered.
2 Guards got a purple robe, a wreath made of gold, and a scepter for the candidate.
3 Caesar was loudly acclaimed as triumphant.
4 A procession ensued; Caesar was followed by a sacrificial bull (who would mark Caesar’s entrance to the divine). A slave marched next to the bull carrying the axe to kill the bull.
5 The procession went to the highest hill (in Rome)
6 The candidate is offered a bowl of wine mixed with myrrh, he took it as if to accept, and then gave it back. The wine gets poured out, and immediately the bull is killed.
7 Caesar gathers his cabinet – who will be his second and third in command on his right/left.
8 For divine approval, the gods would send signs: a flock of birds, an eclipse…
(N.T. Wright, "Upstaging the Emperor")

Now, if you read Mark 15:16-39 you will understand what the author is really saying, and why the Roman soldier responded as he did.