It is man’s need that brings him to God, and Jesus is One given of God on purpose to meet the case of each needy heart ― on purpose to meet your case, if you are in need.
God wants the needy heart just to turn to Him, and get its need met; and not only does it get its need met, but the moment when the heart meets Jesus is the moment fraught with deepest, richest blessing to that heart for time and for eternity.
It is a real thing to meet Christ, to know Christ. Have you met Him, dear reader? Do you know Him? Can you say, “Oh yes, I have met Him; and there is no out I know, no one I trust like Him, no one I am on such intimate terms with as Jesus?” Each heart that knows Him would say that. The heart that has not met Jesus has no rest. No doubt, you have tried to find rest―tried to find it in works, in pleasure, in many things. But it is all of no use; there is no rest for the human heart till it gets to Jesus, and His rest is perfect, and lasts forever. When He takes up your case it is an entire cure. If He has picked me up and saved me, it is for time and for eternity. If He has pardoned me (and He has), it is once and forever. His pardon can never be canceled: “the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
If the blood of Christ is on you, it will never be rolled off from you again. It remains the irrevocable pledge of God’s faithfulness (to Christ), and of your eternal security. That blood speaks to the eye, the heart of God; it even, affects the memory of God, for because of it He can say, “Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
Does that blood rest on you? Have you trusted Jesus? If not, trust Him now, touch Him by faith now. He will not shake you off. He will know your touch, if it be ever so feeble. He reads the heart, He recognizes the least touch of faith, and wherever there is faith there is forgiveness. The two things go together, and there is more still―there is eternal life imparted. The touch of faith links me with Jesus, and in Him there is everything that God can give. There is everything precious in Jesus, and the heart that knows Him hen an unfailing source of joy and peace. It goes on enjoying more and more what He is, and what He has done, and His are joys that never fade away, and never pall upon the taste.
“The draft that lulls our thirsting,
But wakes our thirst anew.”
The Lord give you to know the sweetness of resting in Jesus!
W.T.P. Wolston