COME TO JESUS TODAY

"And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed." -Esther 5:6 [KJV]

My soul, thou hast lately been at the banquet of wine indeed, even of the Redeemer's blood, which Jesus holds at His table; and didst thou not behold the numberless petitioners who attended there with thyself? Surely, if the Persian king made so generous an offer to Esther, to perform her petition, be it what it might, to the half of his kingdom; thy Jesus, thy heavenly King; with Whom are all the treasures, and the unsearchable riches of grace and glory, did not suffer a poor humble petitioner to go empty away. 

Tell me, ye that attended there, did ye not find the King most gracious? How went the matter with you? I pray you tell me. Did the poor man find Jesus indeed rich; and did the trembling sinner, under the apprehensions of wrath, find himself delivered by Him "from the wrath to come?" Surely, Jesus had a suited mercy for every case. And, sure I am, that whatever heart was prompted by His grace to look to Him, the eye and heart of Jesus were looking with mercy upon that poor sinner.

Oh! what gifts, what graces, what pardons, doth every renewed banquet of Jesus scatter among the people! At His table the doors are thrown open, and nothing is needed to ensure welcome, but a sense of need and an hungering to partake. How often, my soul, hast thou seen the people made joyful in the Lord's house of prayer, and returning, as they did after the feast of the dedication of Solomon's temple, to their tents, "joyful and glad in heart?" Yea, how often hast thou returned thyself, and left all thy sorrows, sins, and wants behind thee, when the King hath held forth His sceptre of grace, and given thee faith to touch it! 

Come, ye polluted, poor, exercised, distressed souls; ye wandering, weary, backsliding people; COME TO JESUS: He holds a feast, and every case and every need, He can, and will supply. Let but a sense of need be inwrought by the blessed Spirit in the heart, and the language of our Jesus is to this amount:  

"What is thy petition, and what is thy request? and it shall be granted thee."

 

-preacher Robert Hawker (1753-1827 A.D.)

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