The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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To-day it is a word of solemn command. It is not here
a question of some higher privilege which you are free to accept
or reject. It is not left to your choice, O believer, whether you
will receive the fulness of blessing the Holy Spirit offers. That
To-day
of the Holy
Ghost brings you under the most solemn
obligation to respond to God s call, and to say, Yes, To-day,
Lord, complete and immediate submission to all Thy will ;
To-day, the surrender of a present and a perfect trust in all
Thy grace. Even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day.
To-day ! a word, too, of earnest warning. Even as the Holy
Ghost saith, To-day, if ye shall hear His voice, harden not your
hearts. They shall not enter into My rest. There is nothing so
hardening as delay. When God speaks to us, He asks for a
tender heart, open to the whispers of His voice of love. The
believer who answers the To-day of the Holy Ghost with the
To-morrow of some more convenient season, knows not how he
is
hardening his heart ;
the delay, instead of making
the sur
render and obedience and faith easy, makes it more difficult.
It closes the heart for to-day against the Comforter, and cuts
off all
hope and power of growth. O believer, Even as the Holy
Ghost saith, To-day, so when you hear His voice, open the
heart in great tenderness to listen and obey ;
obedience to the
Spirit s To-day is your only certainty of power and of blessing.
To all Christians whose life has been one of feebleness and
of failure, who have not yet entered into
the rest of faith, into
God s own rest, this word To-day
is the key to all their dis
appointments and to all their failures. You waited for strength,
to make obedience easier ;
for feeling, to make the sacrifice less
painful. You did not listen to the voice of God breathing
through every word. He speaks that wondrous note, even
through the living word, Jesus Christ, that wondrous note of