The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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THIRD SECTION.-Iii. 1-6.
Christ Jesus more than Moses.
XIX.
CONSIDER JESUS.
III. 1. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider
the Apostle and. High Priest of our confession, even Jesus.
Consider Jesus ! This is the central thought of the verse,
and of the passage of which it is a part, as it is indeed of the
whole Epistle. It is the one aim of the writer to persuade the
Hebrews that, if they but knew aright the Lord Jesus
as the
faithful, compassionate, and almighty High Priest in heaven,
they would find in Him all they needed for a life such as God
would have them lead. Their life would be in harmony with
their faith, in harmony with the life of Him whom their faith
would apprehend. The words might have been taken as the
title of my book : Consider Jesus ! is indeed the keynote of the
Epistle.
The word consider, from the root of the Latin word for Star,
originally means to contemplate the stars. It suggests the
idea of the astronomer, and the quiet, patient, persevering,
concentrated gaze with which he seeks to discover all that can
be possibly known of the stars which the object of his study are.
And Jesus, who is God, who became man, and perfected our