Come Unto Me | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

"Come Unto Me."

THIS is the invitation of our blessed Lord to every weak, sinful soul. "Come unto Me" really means contact with Christ. It is not "Come toward Me," or "Come right near Me," but "Come unto Me." "Come right up to Me, right up to My side. Here is My yoke, put that on, the other end is with Me; yoke up with Me." The invitation of Christ embraces all that. The weary soul finds rest in the presence of Christ.

Nothing can keep the soul who heeds that invitation back from Christ. He may be immured in the lowest dungeon Rome ever builded with double-barred doors. They can not prevent the soul's union with Christ.

Man may anathematize and curse the soul for its sinfulness; that will not shut him away from Christ. Men may close and bar church doors, may proclaim the soul outside of the bounds of mercy, may count him as an enemy and a heretic; but that does not shut him away from the compassionate Christ. "Behold, I have set before thee a door opened which none can shut."

Christ uses men and churches to win and bring souls to Him, that they may be saved; but neither men nor churches can shut away the souls from Christ who go to Him in simple faith. Salvation lies wholly between the soul and God.