The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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The one is that of the law, with atonement and acceptance
with God, as typified in Aaron. The Christian trusts in Christ
as his Redeemer, and seeks, by the great motive of gratitude, to
compel
himself to love and obedience. His life is one of
unceasing effort. But he is painfully conscious of failure ;
obedience is not his life and delight. The New Testament
offers a better life.
Through unbelief and sloth the majority
of Christians know little of it. But here it is, opened up by the
Holy Spirit, as the mystery of Melchizedek. Jesus Christ is
become a Priest after the power of an endless life. These
precious words are the key to the higher life. Jesus
heaven as High Priest in the power of an endless life.
lives in
And as
He lives, so He works in that power. This is the meaning of
His being a Priest for ever. His work does not consist, like
that of Aaron, in a series of successive acts, that ever cease,
and ever need to be renewed. No, each work He does for us
He is able to do in the power of an endless life. He works
it within us as a life, as our own life, so that it is our very nature
to delight in God and in His will. His priesthood acts as an
inner life within us, lifting us up, not in thought but in spirit
and in truth, into a vital fellowship
with God. He breathes
His own life in us. And He works it in as the power of life, a
life that is
strong and healthy, because it is His own life from
heaven. And He works it in the power of an endless, an
indissoluble life, a life that never for a moment need know a
break or an interruption, because it is the life of eternity, the
life maintained in us by Him who is a Priest for ever, a Priest
who abideth continually.
And why
is it so many Christians experience and prove so
little of this power of the endless, the unchanging
life that abides
continually? Some know nothing of it, they only know of
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