The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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natural than that the thoughts should be coupled together:
holy brethren, consider Jesus.
Holy brethren !
partakers of a heavenly calling, consider
Jesus ! What is elsewhere spoken of as a holy calling is here
named a heavenly calling. That does not only mean a calling
from heaven, or a calling to the heaven, whence the call
proceeds. No, there is much more in it. Heaven is not only
a place, but a state, a mode of existence, the life in which the
presence of God is revealed and experienced in its unhindered
power. And the heavenly calling is that in which the power of
the heavenly life works to make our life heavenly. When Jesus
was upon earth the kingdom of heaven was nigh at hand ;
He had ascended and received the kingdom from the Father,
after
the kingdom of heaven came to this earth in power, through the
descent of the Holy Spirit. Christians, at Pentecost, were people
who by the new birth entered into the heavenly kingdom or
state of life. And the kingdom entered into them. And they
were partakers of a heavenly calling, because the spirit and the
life and the power of heaven was within them.
It is to such men the invitation comes. Holy brethren!
partakers of the heavenly calling! consider Jesus! If you
would know what it is to be holy and to live holy, consider
Jesus who makes holy
!
If you would know the privileges and
powers that belong to you as partakers of a heavenly calling,
consider Jesus ! He is God, the King of heaven ! He is Man
who has ascended to heaven as your Priest and Saviour, has
opened it for you, and can communicate its life and blessedness.
Oh, consider Jesus ! set your heart on Him ;
He will make
you holy and heavenly.
There is more than one of my readers who mourns that he
knows so little what it is to live a holy and a heavenly life.