“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest”…Matthew 11:28
This text is often preached from, but never too often, since the sorrows with which it deals always abound, and the remedy is always effective.
This time we purpose to view it from our Lord’s side. He entreats the weary to come to him. He beseeches them to learn of him. He not only receives those come, but begs to come. What is this desire, which burns in his bosom? And whence come it?
WHO IS HE?
1. One, who has been rejected, yet he cries, “Come unto me.”
2. One whose rejection involves us in fearful guilt, yet he is ready to forgive, and to bestow rest upon us if we come.
3. One who has all power to receive such as come, and to give rest to them all. This is no vain invitation saying more than it means.
WHOM DOES HE CALL AND WHY?
1. Laborers, with more than they can do: disquieted, unhappy. These he calls to himself that he may give them rest, and cause them to find rest.
2. Heavy laden ones, with more than they can bear: oppressed, sorrowful, and ready to die.
3. The spiritually burdened, who much need a helping hand, and can only find it in him.
WHAT CAUSES HIS DESIRE FOR THEM?
1. He knows what our ruin will be unless we find rest in him.
2. He has a love to our race. “My delights were with the sons of men” (Prov. 8:31). He would have these resting with himself.
3. He knows what our bliss will be if we come unto him.
HOW THEN SHALL WE TREAT THIS CALL?
1. It is very earnest, let us heed it.
2. It exactly suits us. Does it not suit you?
3. It is very gracious, let us accept it.
“Our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him”… 2 Corinthians 3:18
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling,
Calling for you and for me;
Patiently Jesus is waiting and watching,
Watching for you and for me.
Come home, come home,
Ye, who are weary, come home;
Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling
Calling, ‘O sinner, come home!”
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