“Are you sorrowful? Behold the man of sorrows, who bore your griefs and who takes them away! Are you sinful? Look upon him by whose stripes you are healed. Are you weary and heavy laden? There he stands, who said, “Come unto me, and … you shall find rest.” Are you ignorant? He only is wisdom and truth. Are you fettered and hampered? “If the Son shall set you free, you shall be free indeed.” Are you proud and ambitious? “I am meek and lowly of heart.” Are you full of hate and malice and revenge? “Return good for evil, blessings for cursing; love your enemies.” Are you fearful and unbelieving amid the storms of temptations? “Be not afraid; it is I; my grace is sufficient for thee.” Are you lonely and forsaken? “I will not leave you comfortless.” Are you poor? “All things are yours.” Are you guilty, ruined, lost in despair? Behold your Redeemer and Savior…. Are you hungry, thirsty? Jesus is the Bread, the Water, of life. Are you a child? “Suffer the little children to come.” Are you old and gray-headed? “I will never forsake nor leave thee.” What is it that Jesus is not to, or does not for, the saint or the sinner? He is “all and in all,” “Alpha and Omega,” the “Author and Finisher of our faith.”
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