Focus: The Offer Still Stands (Pt.5)

Text: Mt.11:28

"Come unto me."

Two of John's disciples asked Jesus, "Where do you live?" The Lord Jesus Christ said to them, "Come and see." The Scripture says that they accepted the invitation. "They came and saw where he dwelt, and abode with him that day: for it was about the tenth hour" (Jh.1:39). The Lord Jesus Christ invited them over to His place of abode, meaning that they could know Him down to where He lived. Christ had nothing to hide. There is no difference between His public and private lives.

His offer still stands. He is inviting you over to His house. Come, see where and how He lives. His simplicity cannot be simplified. His simplicity invokes wonders. Everything about Christ fascinates - His words and works, His charisma and character, His humility and humanity, just name it.

John's disciples came and saw where He lived and spent a day with Him. O what a day that was! I am quite sure that it was a day with no regrets. A day filled with eternal bliss. A day to forever remember. I want you to imagine yourself in company with Jesus Christ for one full day. It's like imagining the unimaginable. The day Mary Magdalene met with Christ, seven demons left her life for good. She recovered her lost humanity, liberty and dignity. The day a certain mad man met with Christ, six thousand demons bowed out of his body and out of his life forever. The Scripture records that he regained his sanity. People found him well dressed and back to his senses. 

One day with Jesus Christ makes an eternal difference in any person's life.

For John's disciples, it was just a day that they spent with Christ, but for us, Christ invites us to spend eternity with Him. The psalmist declares, "I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." In another place we read, "For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness" (Ps.84:10). We are not spending a day with Christ, but forever in His house. We are talking about the person and the place of Christ, His presence and His palace or paradise.

The psalmist says, "But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple… LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth… One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple… They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures… We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple… Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah" (Ps.5:7; 26:8; 27:4; 36:8; 65:4; 84:4).

I pray that we come to know both the person of Christ and the place of His abode. His offer still stands! Just come!

Bishop Moses E. Peter