Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. – Matthew 11:28,29

Suppose for a moment that it were possible for you to obtain pardon without Christ, what good would it do you? I would remind you that no blessing is a covenant blessing, or a blessing at all, except as it is connected with Christ Jesus, and so with the Lord God. No comfort is worth having if Jesus does not comfort us. No forgiveness is worth the words which utter it if Jesus does not forgive. There is no coming to the Father except by Christ. If, therefore, I imagine that I have come to the Father without Christ, it is clear that I have not come. If I fancy that I have saving blessings apart from the appointed Savior, I am a deceived man. Beloved, do not seek after mercy, pardon, holiness, heaven, except through Christ Jesus our Lord, for you will be seeking counterfeits, shadows, delusions. Begin at the cross. See how Jesus puts it: -“Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” He does not first say, “Take My yoke upon you;” but first “Come unto Me.” He first gives us rest, and then afterwards we find it; but we begin with coming to Him. First Christ, and then His yoke. First Christ, and then rest…Come ye, then, and begin with Jesus. It is the necessary order of your coming: first to Christ, and then to His yoke, and to His peace. Let your faith exercise itself, not so much on what you ought to be, or on what you hope to be, as on what Christ is, and on His ability to make you all that your heart pines after. _ C.H. Spurgeon

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