The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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object of every priest.
Aaron could not do it ; Jesus
has done
it. This is the glory of the New Testament ;
it
brings in a
better hope, a real drawing nigh to the living God, a communion
of the Holy Spirit with Him. This is the perfection which, not
the law, but Jesus gives. In chap.
vi.
hope was already men
tioned as that through which we enter within the veil, whither
our Forerunner has gone for us. In the power
life He has opened the veil and opened the way ;
He
of the endless
has
brought in the better hope through which we draw nigh to
God.
Draw nigh to God ! This expression
is one of the finger
posts on the way to the higher teaching that is to come. It
gives us the main object of Christ s work : to enable us to live
our life in the nearness of God. There are Christians who, in
seeking salvation, only think of themselves and their own
happiness Christ is simply a means to an end. There are
:
others who go farther :
they feel a personal relation to Christ,
and desire greatly to know and serve Him better. But even with
these, there is
something lacking which is indispensable to a
whole and vigorous Christian character. They do not know
that Christ is
only the way, the door to the Father, and that His
great desire is to lead us through and past Himself to the
Father, really to bring us to God ! He wants us to live the
same life He lived upon earth always looking up to, de
pending upon, and honouring a God in heaven above Him.
Draw nigh to God !
Nothing but this can satisfy God and
His love. He longs to have His children come to dwell in that
love, and to delight in His presence. He sent His Son to
bring us to Him. This is what constitutes full salvation. God
as the author of our being longs to have us yield ourselves and
wait upon Himself to work His work in us. As the righteous