How full of meaning is this short word! And would you not like to be the happy possessor of all that this word conveys?
You know what it is to be troubled, as I hops, about your sins. You are uneasy because you are conscious how unfit you are for the presence of God to whom we all have to give account. This is a world of unrest in which we live. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. What feverish activity in the discovery and pursuit of something new! You try this for a while, but you are not satisfied. You turn to something else, and this again fails to satisfy. All your endeavors are futile. You have not REST. Is this not so?
Listen to the words of the blessed Saviour—
“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you REST.” And “him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.” Is not this sufficient encouragement for you to come?
But it is to Him you must come. True, He is no longer here as visibly He was when these words were spoken. That was in Palestine. Would it be any comfort to be told you had to go to Palestine before you could obtain rest? That might be an impossibility for you. Thank God, it is not there you are invited to go—but to Him. And the Lord is nigh to all that call upon Him. Come then to Him now, and He will give you rest. You have not to labor for, but to receive, it. Despise not then this proffered blessing.