His Invitation - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28

His Invitation
Oh! Listen to His words. It is an overwhelming word. Behold Him in the presence of the world’s need. He knew everything; He measured everything; He had heard every sigh, seen every tear, weighed every burden; no heart was hidden from Him; the sin, the sorrow, the sordidness of men’s lives was all uncovered before His eye, and He stretched out His hands to the world and cried to the world with its countless woes and claimant needs, “Come to Me!” Of course, we say at once that only God could speak like that. For who but God could soothe every fevered spirit, relieve every accusing conscience, bind up every broken heart and bless every troubled sinner? Only God could speak thus, and yet these words came from the lips of Jesus, the lowly, rejected yet unresentful Nazarene. God was manifested in the flesh!

Have you been arrested by these words? Then now you need eyes to look into the heart of the One who spoke them. If you can do this, wonderful things will be revealed to you. That heart cares for you, it pities you. He looks into your heart and knows its sins and hopes and fears, its shattered ambitions and hidden secrets and desires, He knows your burdens and every deep and unspoken longing of your soul. As you look into His heart and see this, you draw near, you are encouraged to commit yourself to Him, to trust in Him. Surely you may fully trust the One whom the Father has fully trusted, you may safely commit your soul and its everlasting welfare to Him to whom the Father has committed all His glory.

He appeals to you to come to Him, to come just as you are, and to bring all you are, with everything that is a burden to you; He invites you—and there is the yearning of divine love in His words—to cease your labors, and to rest in Him.

J. T. Mawson