The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

278 tTbe Doliest of HU
and then this is the full entrance into His presence in the
Holiest of All
then filled with all the fulness of God.
Once again, how do we obtain this double blessedness of
of God
the law of God written in the heart, and the presence
filling our life? There is no way but utterly ceasing from
ourselves, dying to self, and waiting in absolute dependence and
deep humility upon God. Christ s priesthood
is not of earth
but of heaven. All means and ordinances, all thoughts and
purposes in man are but the shadows of the heavenly things.
It is from God in heaven that the heavenly life must come,
through Christ who brings us nigh to Him. And Christ
cannot bring us nigh to God, cannot make our drawing nigh
acceptable in any other way than by working in our heart a
faith, and love, and obedience which are pleasing to Him ;
that is, by His fulfilling, as Mediator of the new covenant, its
promises within us. This brings us to the true knowledge of
God.
7. // you would realise the need of absolute dependence upon God, and His direct
operation, I know not of anything that will be more helpful than to read what William
Law says on humility, meekness, patience, and resignation to God s will, as the one only
and infallible way to God. See "The Spirit of Love," Part II., Third Dialogue (WHOLLY FOR
GOD, pars. 29-38).
2. When He had effected the cleansing of sins, He sat down on the rig-lit hand of
the Majesty on high. The removal of sin is the path to God s presence with Christ and
with us.