One’s very familiarity with the terms used to express spiritual things seems to have a tendency to make one feel mystified about them. And their very simplicity makes one suspicious, as it were, that there must be some mysterious and mystical meaning behind them, because they sound too easy and plain to have such great import. ‘Come’ means ‘come,’—just that! and not some occult process of mental effort. What would you understand by it, if you heard it today for the first time, never having had any doubts or suppositions or previous notions whatever about it? What does a little child (Mat 11:25) understand by it? It is positively too simple to be made plainer by any amount of explanation. If you could see the Lord Jesus standing there, right before you, and you heard Him say, ‘Come!’ (Mat 14:29) would you say, ‘What does “come” mean?’ And if the room were dark, so that you could only hear and not see, would it make any difference? Would you not turn instantly towards the ‘Glorious Voice’? (Isa 30:30) Would you not, in heart and will, and intention, instantaneously obey it?—that is, if you believed it to be Himself. For, ‘he that cometh (Jhn 6:35) to God must believe that He is.’ The coming so hinges on that, as to be really the same thing. The moment you really believed, you would really come; and the moment you really come, you really believe. Havergal, Frances Ridley (2013-05-15). The Royal Invitation (Royal Gems) (Kindle Locations 91-103). Blue Letter Bible. Kindle Edition.
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