Jesus Comes to Us
by C. H. Spurgeon

And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and take word to My brethren to leave for Galilee, and there they will see Me" (Matthew 28:9, 10).

Charles Spurgeon reminds us, "The atonement is complete, and needs no suffering on your part; anything added to it would spoil it. But now, on the other side of the tomb, you can stand beside your risen Savior. He can come into our midst, and say, as has often done, 'Peace be unto you!' . . . We can walk and talk with Him as they did who went to Emmaus in company with Him. We can take Him with us into our daily labors, on the morrow, even as He went to the sea where His disciples were fishing, and taught them how to catch a multitude of fish. Familiar acquaintances with Christ should spring out of the fact that He is no longer dead, that He is not now in the grave, but that He has risen in fullness of life . . . "

. . . . We know that He is here in His real though invisible presence. We may expect this blessed experience when we are in the way of holy service. . .

. . . . We have known it to happen in the very midst of the hurry and worry of business. On a sudden, everything has been calm and quiet. We could not make it out; it seemed like a Sabbath in the middle of the week,--a very oasis in the wilderness. . . In fact, there is nothing but sin that can keep Him away from us, since He is not dependent upon the ordinary rules that regulate the movement of earthly bodies. He has not so on earth after He had risen from the dead, for though I doubt not He came . . . "the doors being shut," and He could be here and there at His own sweet will, passing from place to place, holding the eyes of those to whom He was nearest, or opening their eyes just when He pleased to do so. That is how He acts toward us now. Do not some of you recollect when Christ first appeared to you? . . . Many days have passed since then, and we have had fresh visitations from Him. He has come to us, and come again and again. He has not been strange to us; and, now, some of us can say that we are not strangers to Him, for He is our dear familiar Friend. Yet there are times, even with those who dwell with Him, when the light is clearer, and the voice is nearer, and the sense of His presence is more delightful than usual.

These times, I say, come by Christ's own appointment whenever He pleases; yet I remind you . . . that we may expect these visits from Christ when we are going about His business.

. . . . Our Lord is very choice in His company, and He does not frequent the house of the sluggard; but wherever there is one who spends and is spent for Jesus, there we may expect that Jesus will be. If we heartily serve Him, the state of mind into which we shall be brought will be congenial to His own; fellowship will be likely between the laboring Saviour and His laboring servant. . . . Christ comes to those who are busy about His errands, because He is in agreement with them, and they are therefore traveling in the right road to meet with Him. . .

. . . Sit ye down, then, ye who have come to the end of another day of holy service; and just pray, "Jesus, Master, come and meet us now." Oh, that you might feel as though He stood behind you, and looked over your shoulder,--as if the shadow of the Christ fell upon you, and you felt even now His pierced hand touching you; and that prostrate at His feet your spirit might lie, holding Him by the feet and worshiping Him! (Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 39 (1873), pp. 409-420).

"Do not be afraid; for I know that you are looking for Jesus who has been crucified. He is not here, for He has risen, just as He said. . ." (Matthew 28:5-6).