How many of the world’s rich say to the ragged, starving, homeless ones, “Come to me, and I will give—” ?
The world does not like poverty and need. It likes those who can give gift for gift—feast for feast.
How many of the happy ones of the earth will say, while their sunshine lasts, to the sad and sorrow-stricken ones, “Come and I will give—” ?
And where will you find for the disappointed and the downtrodden and the heartbroken and the pain-tortured an offer of a free solution to their need, except in the heart of Jesus?
Who wants those who are weary with the sins of others and the fears and cares of their own hearts? Who wants them? Jesus.
Who wants the heavy laden, those laden with sins that they cannot count—the oppression of a guilty conscience towards God and man—the weight of a future reckoning day and a righteous God to meet? Who wants them? JESUS.
Oh, how the poor would run, if they knew there were bags of gold for nothing—as much as they could carry for the asking!
Oh, how the sick would hurry, if they knew there was healing for them. And yet the sinner carries his burden day by day, although the Lord Jesus is calling, “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden” (Matthew 11:2828Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28)). It is a cry of love, not merely from one who will give and then forget, but One who will give eternal life and will “freely give us all things” (Romans 8:3232He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32)).
What wonderful gifts of peace and love will the Son of God give to those whom He came to save and win, coming from such a height to lift us up out of such depths and set us where He is. And what fools we are to refuse such grace—such gifts.