The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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tians under the new covenant, but with their life in the old.
The
new covenant does not do violence to man s will. It is
only
where the heart sees and believes what God has promised, and
is
ready at any cost to claim and possess it, that any blessing
can be realised. With most Christians there is not even the
intellectual belief that God means His promise literally. They
are so sure that their views of man s sinfulness and the necessity
of always sinning are correct, that the teaching of God s word
in regard to His purpose to make an end of the but they
continued not can never enter the mind. Others there are
who accept the truth, but through unbelief enter not into the
full possession. And the whole state of the Church of Christ
is such that but few live in the full experience
covenant means.
of what the
Let us meditate on its promises, and specially on its chief
promise, its central blessing, I will put My laws in their mind,
and write them in their hearts, in the adoring faith of our great
High Priest upon the throne, who as Mediator of the new
covenant is its surety that every word will be made true. It is
in Him, whom He hath by oath appointed
Priest in the
power of an endless life, that God says
: This is the covenant I
will make after these days I will put my laws into their mind
:
and write them in their hearts. In chap. 7 (ver. 16) we saw
what the difference is between an external law and an inner life.
The one is
impotent, the other mighty. And we saw how even
God s law failed of securing obedience, because the heart was
not right. The promise of the new covenant is to convert the
external law into an inner life, to put
it so in the heart that it
shall be its inmost life, so that, as naturally as the heart wills
and lives and acts on earth, it shall will and live and do what
God demands. Why does an acorn so spontaneously grow up