troubled sea that cannot
rest." You have, perhaps been on the sea when there is a calm, when
the water is as clear as crystal, and it seemed as if the sea were at
rest. But if you looked you would see that the waves came in, and that
the calm was only on the surface. Man, like the sea, has no rest. He
has had no rest since Adam fell, and there is none for him until he
returns to God again, and the light of Christ shines into his heart.

Rest cannot be found in the world, and thank God the world cannot take
it from the believing heart! Sin is the cause of all this unrest. It
brought toil and labor and misery into the world.

Now for something positive. I would go successfully to someone who has
heard the sweet voice of Jesus, and has laid his burden down at the
cross. There is rest, sweet rest. Thousands could certify to this
blessed fact. They could say, and truthfully:

I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Come unto me and rest.
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down,
Thy head upon my breast."
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary and worn and sad.
I found in Him a resting-place,
And He hath made me glad.

Among all his writings St. Augustine has nothing sweeter than this:
"Thou hast made us for Thyself, O God, and our heart is restless till
it rests in Thee."

Do you know that for four thousand years no prophet or priest or
patriarch ever stood up and uttered a text like this? It would be
blasphemy for Moses to have uttered a text like it. Do you think he
had rest when he was teasing the Lord to let him go into the Promised
Land? Do you think Elijah could have uttered such a text as this,
when, under the juniper-tree, he prayed that he might die? And this is
one of the strongest proofs that Jesus Christ was not only man, but
God. He was God-Man, and this is Heaven's proclamation, "Come unto Me,
and I will give you rest". He brought it down from heaven with Him.

Now, if this text was not true, don't you think it would have been
found out by this time? I believe it as much as I believe in my
existence. Why? Because I not only find it in the Book, but in my own
experience. The "I wills" of Christ have never been broken, and never
can be.

I thank God for the word "give" in that passage. He doesn't sell it.
Some of us are so poor that we could not buy it if it was for sale.
Thank God, we can get it for nothing.

I like to have a text like this, because it takes us all in. "Come
unto me