Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects — John Shaqi
Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its EffectsMoody, Dwight Lyman
Religion
Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects
Moody, Dwight Lyman
Grace (Theology) -- Sermons; Sermons, American -- 19th century
Not only so: He will give us the Bread of Life for the nourishment
of the soul--the life that the world knows nothing of--if we will
but go to Him. "I am the Bread of Life," He says. As we feed on Him
by faith, we get strength. Let our thoughts rest upon Him; and He
will lift us above ourselves, and above the world, and satisfy our
utmost desires.
Another Gospel bell is--
COME AND REST!
Dear friend, do you not need rest? There is a restlessness all over
the world to-day. Men are sighing and struggling after rest. The cry
of the world is, "Where can rest be found?" The rich man that we
read of in the parable pulled down his barns, that he might build
greater; and said to his soul, "Take thine ease." He thought he was
going to find rest in wealth; but he was disappointed. That night
his soul was summoned away. No; there is no rest in wealth or
pleasure.
Others think they will succeed in drowning their sorrows and
troubles by indulging in drink; but that will only increase them.
"There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked:" they are like the
troubled sea that cannot rest. We sometimes talk of the ocean as
being as calm as a sea of glass; but it is never at rest: and here
we have a faithful picture of the wicked man and woman.
O weary soul, hear the sweet voice that comes ringing down through
the ages: "Come unto me, all ye that labor, and are heavy-laden; and
I will _give_ you rest." Thank God, He does not _sell_ it! If He
did, some of us are so poor we could not buy; but we can all take a
gift. That little boy there knows how to take a gift; that old man,
living on borrowed time, and almost on the verge of another world,
knows how to take a gift. The gift Jesus wants to bestow is rest:
Rest for time, and rest for eternity. Every weary soul may have this
rest if he will. But you must come to Christ and get it. Nowhere
else can this rest be found. If you go to the world with your cares,
your troubles, and your anxieties, all it can do is to put a few
more on the top of them. The world is a poor place to go to for
sympathy. As some one has said: "If you roll your burdens anywhere
but on Christ, they will roll back on you with more weight than
ever. Cast them on Christ; and He will carry them for you."
Here is another bell--
COME AND REASON!
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