The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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we produce in ourselves by meditation or effort. No, the
living, loving High Priest, who is able to sympathise and gives
grace for timely help, He breathes and works this boldness in
the soul that is willing to lose itself in Him. Jesus, found and
felt within our heart by faith, is our boldness. As the Son,
whose house we are, He will dwell within us, and by His
Spirit s working,
Himself be our boldness and our entrance
to the Father. Let us, therefore, draw near with boldness !
1. Do take hold of the thought that the whole teaching of the Epistle centres in this, that
we should so be partakers of Christ and all He is, should so have Him as our High Priest,
that we may with perfect boldness, with the most undoubting confidence enter into, and dwell
in, and enjoy the Father s presence. It is in the heart that we partake of and have Christ;
it is Christ, known as dwelling in the heart, that will make our boldness perfect.
2. Each time you pray, exercise this boldness. Let the measure of Jesus merit, yea more,
let the measure of Jesus power to work in you and lead you on to God, be the measure of your
boldness.
3. What tenderness of conscience, what care, what jealousy, what humility, this boldness
will work, lest we allow anything for which our heart can condemn us, and we so lose our liberty
before Cod. Then it will truly be our experience
So near, so very near to God.
More near I cannot be.