The questions that matter in life are remarkably few and they are all answered by the words “Come unto Me.” Not – Do this or don’t do that, but – “Come unto Me.”(Matthew 11:28)
-Oswald Chambers*
How we complicate things! Questioning, analyzing, working and doing, none of which are absolutely, necessarily sinful, but if fully embraced they can become a pit of doubt, disobedience, and despair. That’s not where Jesus died for us to live. The questions and even their answers won’t satisfy.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.
Isaiah 55:1-3
The abundant life Jesus gives us is so much better than the old song “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction!” To a woman who clearly had lived a life of sin and confusion He said come to me and be forever satisfied:
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4:13-14
Later in the book of John Jesus said:
Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.
John 7:37-38
He said come and drink! And not only will you be satisfied, but what you find will flow out to others. If we can’t remember anything else the Word speaks to us, let us remember that we can “Come.” And, once we “come,” the word says we can dwell, and abide… stay! We don’t have to come and then go back to the way we were.
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
Psalm 91:1-2
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
John 15:4-5
With Him we have rest, protection; with Him, we thrive.
Come to Jesus, friends! He is all that we need. He has given us “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (II Peter 1:3). Don’t despair when He is waiting with open arms.
*You can read the entire Oswald Chambers devotional here:
