Come
to Me… —Matthew 11:28
Where sin and sorrow
stops, and the song of the saint starts. Do I really want to
get there? I can right now. The questions that truly matter in life are
remarkably few, and they are all answered by these words— “Come to Me.” Our
Lord’s words are not, “Do this, or don’t do that,” but— “Come to me.” If I will
simply come to Jesus, my real life will be brought into harmony with my real
desires. I will actually cease from sin, and will find the song of the Lord
beginning in my life.
Have you ever come to Jesus? Look at the stubbornness of your
heart. You would rather do anything than this one simple childlike thing— “Come
to Me.” If you really want to experience ceasing from sin, you must come to
Jesus.
Jesus Christ makes Himself the test to determine your
genuineness. Look how He used the word come. At the most unexpected
moments in your life there is this whisper of the Lord— “Come to Me,” and you
are immediately drawn to Him. Personal contact with Jesus changes everything.
Be “foolish” enough to come and commit yourself to what He says. The attitude
necessary for you to come to Him is one where your will has made the
determination to let go of everything and deliberately commit it all to Him.
“…and I will give you rest”— that is, “I will sustain you,
causing you to stand firm.” He is not saying, “I will put you to bed, hold your
hand, and sing you to sleep.” But, in essence, He is saying, “I will get you
out of bed— out of your listlessness and exhaustion, and out of your condition
of being half dead while you are still alive. I will penetrate you with the
spirit of life, and you will be sustained by the perfection of vital activity.”
Yet we become so weak and pitiful and talk about “suffering” the will of the
Lord! Where is the majestic vitality and the power of the Son of God in that?
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