The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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us not to rest content with the former, the preparatory stage,
but to show all diligence to reach the second, and enter the
promised rest of complete deliverance. Let us fear therefore,
lest haply, a promise being left of entering into His rest,
any of you should come short of it.
Some think that the rest of Canaan is the type of heaven.
This cannot be, because the great mark of the Canaan life was
that the land had to be conquered and that God gave such
glorious victory
over enemies. The rest of Canaan was for
victory and through victory. And so it is in the life of faith,
when a soul learns to trust God for victory over sin, and yields
itself entirely, as to its circumstances and duties, to live just
where and how He wills, that it enters the rest. It lives in the
promise, in the will, in the power
of God. This is the rest into
which it enters, not through death, but through faith, or rather,
not through the death of the body, but the death to self in the
death of Christ through faith. For indeed we have had good
tidings preached unto us, even as also they but the word of
:
hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith
with those that heard. The one reason why they did not enter
Canaan was their unbelief. The land was waiting: the rest
was provided God Himself would
;
bring them in and give them
rest. One thing was lacking ; they did not believe, and so did
not yield themselves to God to do it
for them what He had pro
mised. Unbelief closes the heart against God, withdraws the
life from God s
power in the very nature of things unbelief
;
renders the word of promise of none A effect. gospel of rest is
preached to us as it was to them. We have in Scripture the
most precious assurances of a rest for the soul to be found under
the yoke of Jesus, of a peace of God which passeth
all under
standing, of a peace and a joy in the soul which nothing can