The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Gbe Iboltest of Bll 205
A priest must have a sanctuary in which he dwells, to receive
all who come to seek his God. Our great High Priest has His
sanctuary in the heavens ;
there He dwells, there we find Him
;
there He receives us, there He introduces us to meet God; there
He proves that He is a Priest who abides continually, and who
gives those who come to God through Him the power
to do it
too to abide continually in His presence. The nearness to
God and fellowship with Him I cannot partake of except
through my heart. My heart is my life, is
myself; my only
blessedness is in the state of the heart. And therefore Jesus as
High Priest cannot do His priestly work of bringing me near
to God except as He dwells in my heart by the power of the
Holy Spirit. All our thought, and faith, and adoration of Him
in heaven brings us back to the riches of the glory of the
mystery Christ in you. He is Priest after the power of an
endless life, a Priest whose presence and power are known and
enjoyed in the life of the heart.
These are indeed spiritual mysteries of which we speak
things hard to be understood of those who, through
worldliness, are dull of hearing.
sloth or
Oh, let us not imagine that these
are things which reason can grasp or hold ; they are a supernatural
wisdom, a divine revelation which none can receive but those who
receive it from the Spirit of God. Let us remember that it is
God, who has pitched this tabernacle ;
that it cost the Son of
God a life of humility and suffering, cost Him His death and
blood, to open it for us that it needed the ; almighty power of
God in the resurrection and ascension to bring Him there; that
it needed ten days unceasing prayer, and the coming down of
the blessed Spirit at Pentecost, before the High Priest could
impart even to His elect circle the power of the life within the
veil. And let us then pause to think that it is no wonder if most