The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Cbe Ibolfest of 2UI 217
fruitful and multiply. And of man : And
and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply.
God blessed them,
So of Noah
too : And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said, Be fruitful
and multiply. It is the glory of God that He is the dispenser
of life that in His creatures He multiplies His own life and
blessedness. And it is one of His highest blessings when He
communicates this power
of increase to those whom He chooses
for His service. The power of His blessing to Adam is seen
in the race that sprang from him, as of His blessing to Abraham
Christ Himself. And to each child of
in his seed, even in Jesus
Abraham, to each true believer, the promise still
comes in divine
power: Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I
will multiply thee. Every believer who will but claim, and
give himself up to the blessing of God, will find that the bless
ing is a power of the divine life which will make him fruitful in
blessing to others, and make it true of him too, multiplying I
will multiply thee. Even we, like Christ, can become priests,
bringing the blessing
of God to those who know Him not.
It is when this fulness of blessing in its divine energy, when
this blessing I will bless thee begins to be understood, and the
soul sees that there is
something beyond the mere being saved
from wrath, that there is a becoming the recipient, and the
channel, and the dispenser, of life and blessing to others, that it
becomes willing to sacrifice everything, and in longsuffering to
endure until it obtain the promise.
Christian !
wouldest thou be an imitator of Abraham, and let
the God who spake to him speak to thee ? Remember it is not
so easy to receive and claim this promise. Abraham received
it in the way of faith and obedience and self-sacrifice,
entire surrender to God s will and leading.
in the
It was when he had
sacrificed Isaac, yea more, when in doing so he had sacrificed