The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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from the example of Abraham, what this means.
It first points
us, as ever, to what God promises, and then to the disposition
in man which this claims and works.
For when God made promise to Abraham, since He could
swear by none greater, He sware by Himself, saying, Surely
blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
The deeper our insight into the certainty and the fulness of the
blessing of God, the more will our hearts be roused to believe
and to persevere. The word of God is our assurance of what
we are to expect. How much greater must our confidence
be when that word is an oath ? Of this the following verses are
to speak. Here the fulness of God s blessing
is set before us in
the promise given to Abraham : as his seed we are his heirs,
and what God promised him is for us too. We need be content
with nothing less ; nothing
his in faith and patience.
less will stimulate us to a life like
Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will
multiply thee. In Hebrew the repetition of a verb is meant to
give force to what is said, to express the certainty and the
greatness
of what is asserted. In the mouth of God the
repetition, Blessing I will bless, multiplying I will multiply,
was meant to waken in Abraham s heart the confidence that the
blessing was indeed to be something very wonderful and worthy
of God, blessing in divine power and fulness. What that
blessing was to be, the second half of the sentence shows,
Multiplying I will multiply thee.
Scripture teaches us that the
highest blessing which God can bestow, that which makes us
truly Godlike, is the power of multiplying ourselves, of becoming,
as God is, the source and the blessing of other lives. So the
two words are connected in passages like Gen. i. 22, 28 ;
ix. I.
Of the living creatures it is said : God blessed them, saying, Be