The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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Jesus offered (see ver. 7), prayers and supplications with strong
crying and tears, yea, in all that, offered Himself unto God.
And all this, that He might win our hearts and confidence as
one who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring. God
has indeed done everything to assure us that, with such an
High Priest, no ignorance or error need make us afraid of not
will care for us
finding the way to Him and His love. Jesus
He bears gently with the ignorant and erring.
Have we not, in our faith in the priesthood of Christ, been
too much in the habit of looking more at His work than at His
heart ? Have we not too exclusively put the thought
of our
sins in the foreground, and not sufficiently realised that our
weaknesses, our ignorance and errors that for these too a
special provision has been made in Him who was made like us,
and Himself encompassed with weaknesses, that he might be a
merciful and faithful High Priest, who can bear gently with the
ignorant and erring. Oh, let us take in and avail ourselves to
the full of the wondrous message
:
Jesus
could not ascend the
throne as Priest, until He had first, in the school of personal
experience, learnt to sympathise and to bear gently
with the
feeblest. And let our weakness and ignorance henceforth,
instead of discouraging and keeping us back, be the motive and
the plea which lead us to come boldly to Him for help, who can
bear gently with the ignorant and erring.
In the pursuit of
holiness our ignorance is often our greatest source of failure.
We cannot fully understand what is
taught of the rest of God,
and the power of faith, of dwelling within the veil or of Christ
dwelling in our heart. Things appear too high for us, utterly
beyond our reach. If we but knew to trust Jesus, not only as
He who made propitiation for our sins, but as one who has
been specially chosen and trained and prepared, and then
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