The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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upon single, isolated acts of faith, but upon
the state of the
heart. Therefore God breathes into us the Spirit of faith, to
keep our heart ever tender and open towards Him. Oh, let
us above everything beware of an evil heart of unbelief.
And if we would know how true living faith is to be obtained
As unbelief falls
away from
and increased, note the connection.
the living God, so faith draws nigh to Him and is fed and
nourished in His presence. Practise the presence of God in
deep humility and stillness of heart. Thirst for God, the living
God.
soul, be thou silent unto God : for my expectation is
from Him." He is the living God. He sees and hears and
feels and loves. He speaks and gives and works, and reveals
Himself. His presence wakens and strengthens and satisfies
faith. Bow in lowly meditation and worship before the living
God, and faith will waken up and grow into
boldness and the
glorying of hope. He is the living God, who makes alive, out
of whom life comes into them that draw near to Him :
tarry in
His presence that, and nothing else, but that, most surely, will
free thee from the evil heart of unbelief.
1. Unbelief and falling away from the living God : remember with holy fear the close con
nection. They act and react on each other.
2. The faithfulness of Jesus fills the heart with the fulness of faith. You remember the
lesson ? Here It Is the same again
:
drawing nigh to the living God will fill the heart with
living faith. And the Epistle is going to teach us how God draws nigh to us in Jesus, and
how in Jesus we draw nigh to God.
3. Never speak or think of unbelief as a weakness, but always as the sin of sins, the fruitful
mother of all sin.
4. The living God in heaven, and the believing heart on earth : these are the two powers that
meet and satisfy each other.
Let thy faith know of no other measure or limit than the living
God.
Let it be living faith in a living God.