The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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XXXIII.
THE HEART-SEARCHING WORD OF GOD.
IV. 12. For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and
spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
13. And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all
things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have
to do.
THEY have been earnest words with which the writer has been
warning the Hebrews against unbelief and disobedience, harden
ing the heart and departing from God, and coming short of the
promised rest. The solemn words of God s oath in Ps. xcv., /
have sworn in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest, have
been repeated more than once to urge all to give diligence lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief. He is about
to close his warning. He does so by reminding them of the
power of the word of God as the word of the omniscient One,
of Him with whom we have to do, before whose eyes all things,
our hearts and lives too, are naked and open. Let each student
of the Epistle make a very personal application of the words.
Let us take the oath of God concerning His rest, and the
command to labour that we may enter in, home to our heart,
and say whether we have indeed entered in. And if not, let us
all the more yield ourselves to the word to search and try us :
it will without fail do its blessed work in us, and prepare us for