The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

"
"
172 abe iboliest of ail
nigh, but by His priestly action He does in very
truth, so take possession
deed and
of our inmost being and inward life,
and draw and bring us nigh, that our life can be lived in God s
presence.
Let us draw near. The expression occurs twice ;
here and
x. 21. The repetition is significant. In the second passage,
after the deeper truths of the true sanctuary, and the rent veil,
and the opening of the Holiest, have been expounded,
it refers to
the believer s entrance into the full blessing of a life spent in the
power of Christ s
heavenly priesthood, in the presence of God.
Here, where all this teaching has not yet been given, it is applied
more simply to prayer, to the drawing nigh to the throne of
grace, in a sense which the feeblest
believer can understand it.
It is as we are faithful in the lesser, the tarrying before the
throne of grace in prayer,
that we shall find access to the
greater the life within the veil, in the full
power
Forerunner who hath entered there for us.
of the
Let us draw near, that we may receive mercy. This
has reference to that compassion
which we need when the
sense of sin and guilt and unworthiness depress us. In
drawing nigh to the throne of grace, to the mercy-seat, in
prayer, we first receive mercy, we experience that God pardons
and accepts and loves. And we find grace for timely
help. This refers to that strengthening of the inner life by
which He, who was tempted in all things like as we, meets
us and enables us to conquer temptation. Grace is the divine
strength working in us.
My grace is sufficient for thee ;
my power is made perfect in weakness." The Holy Spirit is
the Spirit of grace."
The believing supplicant at the throne
of grace not only receives
mercy, the consciousness of accept
ance and favour, but finds grace, in that Spirit whose operation