THERE are many little words in the Bible which even a child may read and understand, and the little words at the head of this paper are three of them. You will find them twice in the first chapter of John’s Gospel, where we read, at verse 36, how John the Baptist, looking on Jesus as he walked, saith “Behold the Lamb of God!” and how two of John’s disciples heard him speak and followed Jesus, who turning and seeing them following Him asked “What seek ye?” Now in the first place I want you to think over this question. What seek ye? “Do you seek salvation?” If so Jesus has it to give you as a free gift. You have not got to earn it by doing or praying, for “THE GIFT OF GOD is eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” So then you have only to go to Jesus for it, and you will have it at once and forever.
Well, when Jesus asked these two men “What seek ye?” they asked another question in reply which was “Rabbi,” (meaning teacher); “where dwellest thou?” and then it was that the Lord used the words at the head of this paper “Come and see.” Then we read “They came and saw where He dwelt and abode with Him that day for it was about the tenth hour.” Thus it would seem they remained with Him, “where He dwelt” all the night through until the morning. Now it is this I want to speak to you about. The Lord Jesus was then, you know, here, in this earth, for “He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not,” but instead of believing in Him the world crucified Him, and from that hour the world has never seen Him, and never will until He comes again “in clouds, and every eye shall see Him and they also which pierced Him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him, even so, Amen.” In the meantime He is in heaven, for you have often heard how He rose again on the third day and went up where He was before, and sat down on the right hand of God. So then if you were to ask the same question now which those two disciples asked 1,800 years ago, what would the answer be? Well, some would say “In heaven,” and of course that is quite true, but would it be of any use merely to know that I believe a good many little people and big people too know it because they have heard it and read it, and it only makes them think that Jesus is a long way off and does not see them or know anything about them. No, dear little reader, a far better answer to such a question would be the answer Jesus Himself gave in those three little words “COME AND SEE.”
Let us look at these simple little words. First, Jesus said, “Come,” and when He said so, what did those two men do? Why they went after Him of course, for “they came and saw where He dwelt,” and so may you if you will, for Jesus though now in heaven still says “Come.” Oh that you may hear Him, and that your young heart may go up after Him by faith, up there, far above the earth and earthly things, far beyond the sphere were clouds are drifting, where the stars are shining, where the moon is walking in brightness; far away to heaven itself, where angels serve and worship Him who now sits in brightest glory waiting to come again and take to Himself all who love His name! Jesus still says “Come and see.” If you “come” to Him by faith, then you shall “see.” First you shall see all your sins all gone through His precious blood, or you could not be happy in His presence. But this is not all. Too many never see more than this because they are thinking only of their own blessing instead of going on to think of Him Himself and all the blessing and the glory He is in. It is in His blessing that we are bleed, it is in His glory that we are glorified. (Eph. 1, John 17).
“Come and see;” and having seen, you will still long to see more, like the dear Apostle Paul, who, “for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord,” counted all things but loss, and still went on “reaching forth to the things which were before” and beyond, ever “growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Do you ask, How am I to begin? I answer, by simply hearing His Word and believing in Him, by looking right away to Him Himself, who bids you. “come;” by trusting His love with all your heart and soul, and thus in spirit coming to Him. Thus you will “see” where He dwells, and will know what it is to “abide with Him,” as the two disciples did; not, indeed, like them, in an earthly home down here, but in spirit in His heavenly home up there. “Seeking those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand, of God; “and setting your affections (your whole mind) there, you will abide with Him all through “the night” of this world’s pilgrimage until the resurrection morning dawns, when, raised or changed, you will be caught away to be forever with the Lord.
May God give you grace to “COME AND SEE.”