AND THEY “WENT AND TOLD JESUS.”
By M. C. Du Bois
Those sorrowing disciples had the privilege of going and telling Jesus about their grief. Blessed privilege! How is it with you? Have you gone and told Jesus all about that trial which is so grievous to bear? Have you taken it to Jesus, and laid it at his feet? We are so prone to hug our sorrows to our bosom: we hate to part with them. We forget to go and tell Jesus, who alone can help us in the dark and trying hour. True, the sympathy of an earthly friend is sweet; yet such have been known to betray trust; but Jesus, never. Whatever we tell Jesus, he never reveals. Then fear not to trust him. In our daily life there are many small perplexities that try us sorely. Tell them to Jesus. Discouraged wife and mother, have you gone and told Jesus all about your discouragements? If not, go at once and tell him. You will find it blessed to go to the Master with every care, every trial; for “Jesus knows how to steal the bitter from life’s woes.” Learn to cast all care upon Jesus. Few learn to do this. We seem afraid to trust our cares with him. We groan beneath our heavy burdens, and fail to accept the blessed invitation to enter into rest. Oh, that we might learn to tell all to Jesus! Then there would come a sweet peace into the aching heart; strength to the weary feet; and the tired arms would grow strong in loving service to others. If each one would tell his temptations to Jesus, instead of to some earthly friend, how much better it would be! “Tell Jesus everything,
To him thy sorrows bring;
He’ll take away thy burden,
And make thy heart to sing.
O blessed trust! O blessed song!
Tell Jesus everything;
No love of sin, no love of wrong,
When all to him we bring.”