The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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One, and that His blessed rest can never be disturbed by what is
done either by Himself or by others. Hearkening to the loving
offer, it forsakes all to find its dwelling-place in God and His
love. Faith sees what the rest of God is ;
faith believes that
it may come and share in it ;
faith enters in and rests, it yields
itself to Jesus to lead it in and make it partaker. Because it
honours God and counts Him all, God honours it; He opens the
door, and the soul is
brought in to rest in Him.
This faith is faith in Jesus. It is the insight into His
finished work, the complete salvation He bestows, the perfecttion
which was wrought in Him personally, and in which we
share as partakers
of Christ. The connection between the
finishing of a work and the rest that follows is clearly seen in
what is said of creation. God rested on the seventh day from
all His works. He that is entered into His rest, hath himself
also rested from his work, as God did from His. The rest of
God was His glad complacency
in what He had finished in
Creation, the beginning of His blessed work of Providence to
care for and bring on to perfection what He had wrought. And
so it is the finished work of Jesus that is ever set before us in
the Epistle as the ground of our faith, the call for us in fulness
of faith to draw nigh and enter in and rest. Because Christ
hath put away sin, hath rent the veil, and is set down on the
right hand of the throne, because all is finished and perfected,
and we have received the Holy Spirit from heaven in our
hearts to make us the partakers of that glorified Christ,
we may with confidence, with boldness, rest in Him to main
tain and perfect His work in us. And, resting in Him, He
becomes our Joshua, perfecting our faith, bringing us in, and
giving us a home in the rest of God with Himself, now to go
no more out for ever.