What is the invitation?
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 (NIV)
For whom is this invitation?
“He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.” To all who are weary and burdened. We might not be wearing out and burdened physically, but what else can be man’s heavy burden?
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us…” Hebrews 12:1 (KJV)
Sin is like a heavy load that makes man weary and unable to carry. It’s also like an enemy attacking him on all sides, continuously troubling and afflicting him until he surrenders and be enslaved of it.
Sin is powerful to the weak; and the power behind it is Satan. “He who does what is evil is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.” 1 John 3:8 (NIV)
Everyone is invited; for all are sinners. “For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23); “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8)
How to accept God’s invitation?
“With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.” Acts 2:41
Accept the message being preached, which is the very words of God, His way of inviting. “He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who rejects me rejects Him who sent me.” Luke 10:16
Accept Jesus Christ, the very gift of God. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believers in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 “Yet to all who received Him, to those who delivered in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.” John 1:12
What is the promise to those who will receive the invitation?
“Come, let’s talk this over! Says the Lord; no matter how deep the stain of your sins, I can take it out and make you as clean as freshly fallensnow. Even if you are stained as red as crimson I can make you white as wool.” Isaiah 1:18
There is now promise of forgiveness from sins that burdens. Since the burden is taken away, there is now rest for the soul.
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