To every
toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, "Come to me and rest". But there are
many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is
meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service,
and do not mistake it. It is not, "Go, labor on," as perhaps you imagine. On the
contrary, it is stop, turn back, "Come to me and rest." Never, never did
Christ
send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary
one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the
Bible only says,
"Come, come, come." - James Hudson Taylor
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of
man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of
the Deity. And, whilst humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently
consolatory. Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound;
in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the
influence of the
Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. Would you
lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in
the Godhead’s deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come
forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. - Charles
Spurgeon
Thou hast
made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in
Thee. - Augustine
To every
toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, "Come to me and rest". But there are
many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is
meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service,
and do not mistake it. It is not, "Go, labor on," as perhaps you imagine. On the
contrary, it is stop, turn back, "Come to me and rest." Never, never did
Christ
send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary
one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the
Bible only says,
"Come, come, come." - James Hudson Taylor
Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of
man, as a devout, earnest, continued investigation of the great subject of
the Deity. And, whilst humbling and expanding, this subject is eminently
consolatory. Oh, there is, in contemplating Christ, a balm for every wound;
in musing on the Father, there is a quietus for every grief; and in the
influence of the
Holy Ghost, there is a balsam for every sore. Would you
lose your sorrows? Would you drown your cares? Then go, plunge yourself in
the Godhead’s deepest sea; be lost in his immensity; and you shall come
forth as from a couch of rest, refreshed and invigorated. - Charles
Spurgeon
Thou hast
made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in
Thee. - Augustine