Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28
Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink." - John 7:37
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger." - John 6:35
You refuse to come to me that you may have life. - John 5:40
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." The man who had died came out. - John 11:43-44
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"Come to Me" Jesus came to offer himself for our eternal enjoyment, he did whatever he had to do - including death- to remove every obstacle to this everlasting joy in him. Eternal Enjoyment, Everlasting joy do we relly understand and ponder what is at stake here? I do pray for grace to more fully understand... and more importantly live as I do
J.I. Packer, in his book Prayer, talks about the importance of the dicipline of "brooding." Not much different from meditating or comptemplative prayer, but brooding has a more reflective and even "deeper" meaning in our culture.
I've tryied this brooding over "come to me" this week with challenges I've had and it has helped; not that they've gone away, but the problems and their accompanying stress have taken a different toll.
Scripture says that God will keep putting the same thing in front of us time after time until we get it right. When I first read that in about 1993 in Chambers' "Utmost for His Highest" and I've wondered many times what it realy really means to get "it" right.
I think it starts, and then ends, with "observing all I've commanded" (Matthew 28:29).
So far...Born Again, Repent, and Come to Me.
We blend them together and begin to see parts of Christlike.
Can't wait.
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