The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and holy One He seeks to have us wholly given up to His will
and wisdom. As the unseen and hidden One, He asks that we
should withdraw ourselves from the visible and hold fellowship
with Him. Man was created for the presence of God. The
nearness of God was to be his native atmosphere. It is this
God is willing to vouchsafe to each of us ;
it is this the heavenly
priesthood makes possible ;
it is this God would have us seek.
As God is no outward Being, so is nearness to Him nothing
external, but an inner spiritual harmony of disposition, a
fellowship and unity of will. As His spirit gives us more of
the divine nature, and God works His will more freely and
fully in us, we come nearer to Him, we become truly united
to Him.
Draw nigh to God! Nothing less than this is what the
redemption of Christ has won and set open
for us. This was
the weakness of the law, that it made no provision for God s
people entering into His sanctuary, His immediate presence.
The way into the Holiest has been opened by Jesus. We may
boldly enter in and appear before God. Seated on the throne
our High Priest has the power by His Holy Spirit to make the
draiving nigh to God our continual abiding experience. He does
this in the power of the endless life. Life never works from
without, always from within. Our High Priest by His life-power
enters our life, and renews it,
and lifts it
up ;
His heavenly
life
becomes our actual life, and the presence of God surrounds and
shines on us as the sunlight shines on our bodies. He is able
so to shed abroad the love of God in our hearts that His presence
is
our joy
all the day.
our faith claims.
Draw nigh to God !
Nothing less than this must be what
The redemption in Christ is so perfect and allprevailing,
His salvation so complete, the power of His life in us