The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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hope, To-day. You thought
it meant for the sinner a call to
immediate repentance ; you did not know that it means for
the believer, each time he hears the voice, immediate, whole
hearted submission to all God says, immediate trustful accept
ance of all He gives. And yet just this is what it does mean.
In the Epistle to the Hebrews we have a very wonderful
exhibition of what Christ, as a High Priest at the right hand
of God, can do for us in the power of an endless life. The
entering into the rest of God, the perfect cleansing of the
conscience in the blood through which He entered into the
presence of God, our access within the veil into the presence of
God, the being brought close to the very heart of God, the
being taken up and kept in Christ in the love of God, these
blessings
are all ours. And over each of them is written the
words, Now is the accepted time. Even as the Holy Ghost
saith, To-day.
/. Brother, let you and me bow in great stillness before Qod to hear this wonderful message :
the Holy Ghost whispering, To-day, To-day. Let our whole heart open up to take it in. Let all
fear and unbelief pass away as we remember : it Is the Holy Ghost Himself, the giuer of strength,
the dispenser of grace, the reuealer of Jesus, who says To-day.
2. Let our faith simply listen to God s voice, until it rings through our soul day by day, and
all the day. We shall take God s word To-day, and make it our own. We shall meet this
wonderful To-day of God s love with the confident To-day of our faith. And it will become to us
a foretaste of that eternal To-day In which He dwells.
life,
3. The Holy Spirit s To-day, accepted and lived in, will be within us the power of an endless
the experience of an eternal salvation, as an ever-present, never-ceasing reality.
the Holy Ghost saith, To-day,"
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Even as
4. Just yesterday I heard a servant of God testify that at his conversion he was led to say :
I am going to do the will of God to-day, without thinking of to-morrow ; and he had found the
unspeakable blessing of it. Let anyone begin to live a whole-hearted life, by the grace of God, for
one day; for to-morrow will be as to-day, and still better.