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16—GO TO HIM AND SEE
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THESE chapters have been written to fellow lovers, but perhaps one who does not know our Saviour well enough to love Him will read this page. May the Lover of us all turn it to a signpost showing clearly the way Home.
There can be nothing more sorrowful than not to know the way, or having known it to have lost it.
In the cathedral of Lübeck, in Germany, there is an old inscription:
Ye call Me Master, and obey Me not.
Ye call Me Light, and see Me not.
Ye call Me Way, and take Me not.
Ye call Me Life, and desire Me not.
Ye call Me Wise, and follow Me not.
Ye call Me Fair, and love Me not.
Ye call Me Rich, and ask Me not.
Ye call Me Eternal, and seek Me not.
Ye call Me Gracious, and trust Me not.
Ye call Me Noble, and serve Me not.
Ye call me Mighty, and honor Me not.
If I condemn you, blame Me not.
But it is far from our Lord’s desire to condemn us. “I became thoroughly miserable while a thorn was fastened in me” is the Septuagint rendering of Psalm 32:4. He wore a crown of thorns that the thorn of unforgiven sin might be plucked out of my heart. Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to Him: Come unto Me, all that travail and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you.
To the hurt, the puzzled, the troubled, the sinful, I would repeat what Faithful said to Hopeful when he thought that his Saviour was not willing to receive him: “He bade me go to Him and see.” There is no doubt what will happen then: it has always happened. To the pilgrim at the wicket gate, “‘I am willing with all My heart,’ said He, and with that He opened the gate.”