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Come Unto Me

Jesus often said, “Come unto me.” It’s a fair question—what happens if I do come unto Him? This story answers that once and for all.

It was a day unlike any other in recorded history when the Lord Jesus Christ appeared at Bountiful. Near day’s end he announced, “Behold, my time is at hand, I perceive that ye are weak; that ye cannot understand all my words which I am commanded of the Father to speak unto you at this time.”

He then invited them to go home and ponder and pray and He would return to them the next day. “But now,” he said, “I go unto the Father.”

And then the Lord seems to pause and look out over the multitude. Their tear-filled were fixed upon Him as if to say, “Please, don’t leave us.”

These people had waited for Him all their lives. Since they were children they had been taught that he would come to them. They had lived their lives waiting for Him, and now He was here, and now he was about to leave. They just couldn’t let Him go. And it moved Him.

Behold,” He said, “my bowels are filled with compassion towards you. Have you any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any…that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them.”

And with that invitation they arose as a body and carried their sick and afflicted to Him and one by one He healed them. When He finished, all of them fell before Him, kissing His feet and bathing them with their tears. Their love for Him knew no bounds.

He then gathered their little children about Him, knelt in their midst, and prayed for them. “No one,” they said, “can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father.” Can it be that He prayed for each of them, one by one?

Rising from prayer–and can you imagine this as a parent—He took their little children and one by one blessed them and prayed unto the Father for them. This one day changed the course of history.

Why should we come unto Christ? Because given enough time He will heal all our wounds and give us gifts and joy beyond all things earthly.