Accepting God’s Love

IF your life were wasting away from a painful disease which physicians pronounced “incurable” and a master physician should appear who declared there was no such thing as an “incurable” disease and that he would heal you and all sufferers who would go to him, would you not go?

Did you ever realize that you have a personal invitation from One who can lift you out of all your sufferings, physical and mental; who can solve all your problems and difficulties?

“Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Is not that a personal invitation from the divine Physician, God’s love? And if you accept it, with all that it means, you will realize that peace which “passeth understanding.” Your cares and difficulties will melt and dissolve as snow melts and dissolves under the sun’s rays.

Are you suffering from a painful disease, from dire poverty, from crushing disappointments, from injustice or persecution, from disgrace, merited or unmerited—from any of the thousand and one things that fill the world with misery and unhappiness—then listen to God’s love call, accept the divine invitation: “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

Modern thought is putting a new meaning into the invitation. It is extending the application of Christ’s words to every human problem. He put no limitations to his invitation, which is the voice of Divine Love, calling to us. It says: “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will relieve you from the drudgery of your labor, because I will put a new spirit in you. I will replace your sense of drudgery with joy in your task, with love of service; I will turn you about so that you will face the light and your shadows will no longer haunt you because they will fall behind you.