"COME UNTO ME"
C.H. Spurgeon
Jesus Christ says to all who labor and are heavy laden, "Come unto me and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). This implies a movement, a movement from something to something. You are bidden to come away from whatever else you have been trusting in, and to move towards Christ, and trust in Him; and when you do so, He will give you rest. How different this simplicity is from all the complex systems that men set up! Why, according to some people's teaching, in order to be a Christian you would need to have a little library to consult so as to know at what hour you ought to light your candles, and how to mix incense, and in which direction you should turn when you say a certain prayer, and in what other direction you should turn when you say something else, and whether your intoning, or your chanting, or your mumbling will be most acceptable to God. Oh, dear, dear, dear! All this complex machinery of man's inventing, -- the so-called "baptism" in your infancy, the confirmation in your youth, "taking the sacrament," as many call it, -- all this is a wonderful hocus-pocus, full of mystery, and falsehood, and delusion; but, according to Christ's teaching, the way of salvation is just this, "Come unto me, and I will give you rest." And if you, dear friend, have come to Christ, and trusted Him, you have received that rest and peace which He delights to give; you have found the kernel of the nut, you have reached the essence and the root of the whole matter. If your heart has abandoned all other confidences, and is just depending upon Jesus Christ, you have found eternal life, and that eternal life will never be taken away from you. Therefore, rejoice in it!
�copyright 2001, Perry S. Fuller
