The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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into an oak? Because the law of the oak is written in the
heart of the acorn.
The life of every creature acts with delight
in accordance with the law of its Creator, that is, its inner nature.
God and His holiness, Christ and His Holy Spirit, if they
belong to us, must be as near to us, as essentially within us, as
truly inherent in our own life, as our own thinking, willing, and
feeling. And so God promises that He will put His law in
our minds and write it in our hearts, in such a way that it shall
be our inner nature, our very life, and we shall act according to
it as naturally as we think or live. Yes, He will do it. So that
we can say, even as His Son did, Thy law is within My heart ;
I delight to do thy will, O God.
This is the covenant I will make, saith the Lord. And
God hath given His own Son with an oath to be of that coven
ant the surety
! And of that covenant He, the High Priest
upon the throne, is the Mediator ! Oh, what think you ? Will
God fail in the very thing the covenant was devised to provide ?
Will He disappoint us in the one thing in which, as it deals with
our experience, the new covenant is to be better than the old ?
In the one thing His heart and our heart longs for, to serve Him
in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life, is this
one thing the very thing we are not to realise ? God forbid. He
hath said This is the covenant I will make ;
and He will
do it.
Let us look up to the Mediator of the covenant, our High
the throne in the heavens. When He was with His
Priest upon
disciples on earth, the law was not yet put into their hearts.
How often they failed in humility and love and boldness. But
when He sat down upon the throne, He sent down the Holy
Spirit from heaven in their hearts, and all was new. They were
full of humility and love and great boldness. The law of God
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