You may have mistreated father, mother, sister, and may have broken hearts by your cruelty that would gladly have bled for you. You may have crushed a loving and faithful wife by your selfishness and your brutality and heartlessness. You may have driven your children to desperation and crime by your coldness and hardness to them.
And may be some life, innocent until you came upon it with your hellish art, has been corrupted and embittered and darkened by your base passions and lusts.
May be your hands have gone to that last extreme of human crime and have deprived a fellowman of life. And, oh, if any of these things be true, what must be the burden of remorse, remorse, remorse, that weighs upon your heart.
But you are the very ones whom Jesus addresses and invites in this tender appeal. Do you believe it?
2. In the second place, consider who it is that offers you rest. It is one who knows you and who knows what you need and one who has all power in heaven and in earth to give what you need.
3. Lastly, consider what this rest means which Jesus offers to you burdened and toiling ones.
1. It is rest from sin, both its guilt and power.
2. It is rest from all care. For He has said, we should cast all our care upon Him because He cares for us.
MATTHEW V: 3.