The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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way by which Jesus entered. Union with God s will is the way
by which Jesus brings us in to the love and the joy of the
Father.
And how, again, do we obtain this double blessedness of
the law written in the heart, and the entrance into God s
presence in Jesus ? It is God must do it. It is He who sware
to Abraham Blessing I will bless. It is He who sware to
our High Priest Thou art a Priest for ever. It is God
Himself who will fulfil His oath. Jesus
is not now on the
throne to take the place of God, to be to us instead of God.
Verily no ;
He brings us to God. Through Him we draw nigh
to God, that God may perfect His work in us. Our first access
to God in
the pardon of sin, ere yet we know what the access
of abiding fellowship is, has this one sole object that God may
reveal His Son in us, so that we look up to and love and
serve the Father, even as the Son did. And so the one thing
required of us is, that we bow ourselves and abide and live in
deep dependence and humility before God. However clearly we
see the blessed truth of the promises of the new covenant, how
ever earnestly we desire them, however firmly we think we grasp
them as faith, all will not avail God Himself must do it. God
Himself must admit to His presence, and make His face to
shine upon us. And as the path to this, God Himself must write
His law in our hearts, give us the new nature in such power of
the Holy Spirit, that He works both to will and to do. God
Himself must by the Holy Ghost so shed abroad His love in
our hearts, that to love becomes as natural to us as it is for the
dove to be gentle. God has promised on His oath to do this
for us, in Jesus the surety of the new covenant. It is God who
strengthens us mightily by His Spirit, then gives Christ to dwell
in our hearts by faith ;
it is in God that we are rooted in love ;