IF my little readers will open their. Bibles at Matthew 11:28,28Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) you will read of an invitation. You know what the word means, do you not?
When it is your birthday, mother says you may ask a little friend of yours to come and have tea with you. The act of asking your friend is an invitation. Now the verse before is contains an invitation from the children’s Friend, the Lord Jesus Christ, asking those who labor and are heavy laden to come to Him.
Many children are laboring, not with their hands, but with trying to save themselves; but you can never save yourselves, dear children; if you could, Jesus would not have died.
What is it to be heavy laden? You are sent to a store sometimes for errands, and you find the load heavy as you go home. How glad you are if a little friend offers to help you!
Now all who are not saved are carrying a burden of sins, and it is those that the blessed Saviour invites to come to Him. After reaching home with your parcels how good it is to rest. But better is the rest given by the Saviour. May you, my children, come to Him, so that you can truly say,
“I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary and worn and sad,
I found in Him a resting-place,
And He has made me glad.”
Messages of God’s Love 11/6/1921