The poor Arabs have traveled a long way across the desert, and have now come to a green spot where there is a well of water and a little pool. It surely is a good place to rest and be refreshed.
There is very little real rest known in this world. Indeed, it is full of unrest on account of sin. The Scripture says, “The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest.” Isaiah 57:2020But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. (Isaiah 57:20).
There are wars between nations, and quarreling between one and another, and even the dear children in school have their fusses with other children. What a condition this poor world is in!
We can find rest and peace in the midst of it all, but not as a part of it, but by what the Lord Jesus has brought into it. He has said,
“COME UNTO ME ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.”
If we feel the burden of our sins, the One to go to is the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will relieve us of our burden and give us rest about them by letting us know that He took all our sins upon Him, and bore the terrible judgment that we deserved.
We then can find rest in our circumstances by taking His yoke upon us and learning of Him. He was one who did not do His own will, but always did the will of His Father. If we, who know what it is to have rest about our sins, lay aside our wills, and just seek to do His will, we shall have rest in all our circumstances.
For such there is a rest that remains for them at the end of all their labors on this earth.
ML 06/28/1931