The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and Joshua. Moses the leader, Joshua the perfecter or finisher
of the faith of Israel. Moses brought the people out :
Joshua
brought them in. Accept Jesus as your Joshua. Let past
failure and wandering and sin not cause either despair or con
tentment with what you are. Trust Jesus who, through the
sprinkling of the blood, brought you out of Egypt, to bring you
as definitely into the rest. Faith is
always repose in what
another will do for me. Faith ceases to seek help in itself or
its efforts, to be troubled with its need or its weakness ;
it
rests in the sufficiency of the all-sufficient One who has undertaken
all. Trust Jesus. Give up and forsake the wilderness. Follow
Him fully
: He is the rest.
7. Let no one imagine that this life in the rest of faith is something that is meant only
for a favoured few. I cannot too earnestly press it upon every reader: God calls you yes
you, to enter the rest. He calls you fo a life of entire consecration. If you rest content
with the thought of having been converted, it may be at the peril of your soul : with Israel you
may perish in the wilderness. have sworn in my wrath: "I they shall not enter into my
rest."
2. If God be indeed the fountain of all goodness and blessedness, it follows that the nearer
we are to Him, and the more we have of Him, the deeper and the fuller our joy will be.
Has not
the soul, who is not willing at all costs to yield to Christ when He offers to bring us into the
rest of God, reason to fear that all its religion is simply the selfishness that seeks escape
from punishment, and is content with as little of God here as may suffice to secure heaven
hereafter.