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There is rest in the Saviour’s heart, Who never turned sorrow away, But has found, in what sin had made our part, The place of His love’s display.We … look to our
state and our fruit and our feelings to know if we are His … which
cannot give rest, and ought not. Jesus does not say, Find out our state
and you shall have rest, but “Come unto me all ye that labour, and are
heavy laden,” as you are, “and I will give you rest.” Our rest comes
not from our being what He wants, but His being what we want. It is Jesus who
gives abiding rest to our souls, and not what our thoughts about
ourselves may be. Faith never thinks about that which is in ourselves
as its ground of rest; it receives, loves and apprehends what God has
revealed, and what are God’s thoughts about Jesus, in whom is His rest. And here we walk, as sons through grace, A Father’s love our present joy: Sons, in the brightness of Thy face, Find
rest no sorrows can destroy.
He has not only
made peace, but “My peace I give unto you.” … What was the peace of
Christ? He was here in uninterrupted intercourse with the Father—the
peace of perfect communion. Christ puts us into His place, and we
have fellowship with the Father; and when we walk in that, we have this
peace of Christ. There is but one
man … who never had a place of rest. … “The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay
his head.” And if we now have a nest, a place of rest in God, it is
because for our sakes Jesus was without rest on earth. After weariness
of heart in the world—after the Lord Jesus had gone through the world
and found no place where a really broken heart could rest—He came to
shew that what could not be found for man anywhere else could be found
in God. This is so blessed! that after all, the poor wearied heart,
wearied with itself, with its own ways, wearied with the world and
everything, can find rest in the blessedness of the bosom of the Father. One may rest
sometimes with God, as well as act with Him; for one cannot act without
Him, save to trouble, even though meaning to do good. He gives rest
supreme as One who knew what peace was in trouble as none ever did. I … seek to
minister Christ. It is what souls want, both for quietness and forming
them in His image. It is those who are not with Him who are restless. What settled
quietness of spirit it gives, to have found yourself with the Father,
through the knowledge of the Son, in confidence of heart! Have your
hearts got that? Are they really occupied with the Father? … Can our
hearts say, I have found the Father in Christ? Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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