The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and to live to His glory. Continued failure and bitter disap
pointment is their too frequent experience. Very often as the
result they give themselves up to a feeling of hopelessness : it
never will be otherwise. Theirs is truly
the wilderness life
they have not entered into God s rest. Would that God might
open their eyes, and show them Jesus as our Joshua, who has
entered into God s presence, who sits upon the throne as High
Priest, bringing us in living union with Himself into that place
of rest and of love, and, by His Spirit within us, making
that life
of heaven a reality and an experience.
He that is entered into rest, hath himself also rested from
his works, as God did from His. And how does one rest and
cease from his works ? It is
by ceasing from self. It is the old
self life that always insists upon proving its goodness
strength, and presses
and its
forward to do the works of God. It is
only in death that we rest from our works. Jesus
entered His
rest through death; each one whom He leads into it must
pass through death.
Reckon yourself to be indeed dead unto
sin, and alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Believe that
the death of Christ, as an accomplished fact, with all that it
means and has effected, is
working in you in all its power. You
are dead with Him and in Him. Consent to this, and cease
from dead works.
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.
Yea, saith the Spirit, for they do rest from their labours."
That
is as true of spiritual dying with Christ as of the death in the
body. To sinful nature there is no rest from work but through
death.
He that is entered into rest hath rested from his works.
The ceasing from our works and the entering the rest of God go
together. Read the first chapter of Joshua, and hear God s
words of strength and encouragement to everyone who would