God Himself is the only center of rest.
In all creation there is movement.
The face of the world changes—islands are formed and other islands sink beneath the ocean's waves. An earthquake hurls to the ground buildings which were thought well-founded. A volcanic eruption covers a district with destruction. Spring, summer autumn, winter, come in their rotation with seedtime and harvest. The rivers flow to the sea, and evaporation carries their waters back to the mountain tops. A child is born, grows, reaches maturity, and then his life declines and he passes away. Another succeeds and pursues the same course. As the wise man said of old, "All things are full of labor. Where shall we find rest?”
If we take a wider view and stand in thought in the midst of the universe, we find every planet and star in movement too rapid for the human mind to grasp. We consider the moon in its orbit around the earth, the earth and its attendant moon around the sun, the sun and the earth and its moon, and the other planets of the solar system and their moons, and all the stars of heaven circling in their orbits. The mind is lust in the vastness of the heavenly mechanism, and bewildered, asks where rest can be found.
The answer is in God, in God alone.
He is the great Author of all, who caused all to exist and causes all to subsist. He is the center of rest. Stupendous, Incalculable, overwhelming power Is with Him. His eternal power and Godhead are displayed, but He is past finding out. Augustine Of old cried, "O God, Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are weary till we rest in Thee." God is the center of rest and in Him alone is rest found.
But He who is invisible in His essential glory, "Whom no man hath seen omen see," has been pleased to reveal Himself in the Son. Anti He, in His days of manhood here, cried to the weary of the world, to the restless, sinful sons of fallen Adam, "Conte unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
He found for Himself perfect rest in the knowledge of the wisdom and power and love of the Father, and in the midst of the turmoil and trouble on every hand, called the laboring and heavy laden to Himself, that there in His bosom they might be in repose near His heart of love.
“I will give you rest," Yes! In the quieting calm of His presence the heart is stilled.
“I will rest you;" has been given as the idea of the promise, as a mother comforts her child—not at a distance from herself, but near to her beating heart, so our Lord rests His own in the knowledge of His all sufficiency for all circumstances and all times.
“Calm amid tumultuous motion." Like an island of rock amid the tossing of the ocean waves, so is the believer who relies upon his all-powerful, all-loving Lord and Savior.
Young Christian