October 8th — THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF CHRIST
October 8th.THE EXCLUSIVENESS OF CHRIST
"Come unto Me." Matthew 11:28
Is it not humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things we wil not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words - "Come unto Me." In every degree in which you are not real, you wil dispute rather than come, you wil quibble rather than come, you wil go through sorrow rather than come, you wil do anything rather than come the last lap of unutterable foolishness - "Just as I am." As long as you have the tiniest bit of spiritual impertinence, it wil always reveal itself in the fact that you are expecting God to tel you to do a big thing, and al He is tel ing you to do is to "come."
"Come unto Me." When you hear those words you wil know that something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit wil show you what you have to do, anything at al that wil put the axe at the root of the thing which is preventing you from getting through. You wil never get further until you are wil ing to do that one thing. The Holy Spirit wil locate the one impregnable thing in you, but He cannot budge it unless you are wil ing to let Him.
How often have you come to God with your requests and gone away with the feeling - Oh, wel , I have done it this time! And yet you go away with nothing, whilst al the time God has stood with outstretched hands not only to take you, but for you to take Him. Think of the invincible, unconquerable, unwearying patience of Jesus - "Come unto Me."