The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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Heaven itself, the Holiest of All, into which He entered, the
presence of God, is now the sphere in which He exercises His
heavenly ministry, into which He brings us in as an actual life
and experience, in which we alone can truly serve the living
God.
And what, we may well ask, what is the reason that so few
of God s children can testify to the joy of entering in and having
their abode here in the very presence of God ? There can be
but one answer, There is such a difference between being the
heir of a promise and actually inheriting Each it.
of the great
words of our Epistle, as God s gift to each one of His children,
has an infinitude of meaning and blessing and power in it.
Christ a Priest for ever; the power of an endless life; He
is able to sympathise, able to succour, able to save com
pletely ;
the true sanctuary, the new covenant, the blood cleans
ing the heavens, cleansing the conscience, all these are divine
realities, with a power and a glory that the heart of man cannot
conceive. It is
only by faith and longsuffering
that we inherit
the promises. It is as we give up our whole heart and life to
be just one act of faith, looking up and longing, praising and
expecting, believing and receiving what God gives and works in
Christ, that this life in the Holiest will be ours. It is as our
faith sees the divine unity of the once for all and the for ever,
that we shall be bold to believe that the for ever, the abiding
continually, has in Christ been made ours once for all, and can
be made ours in an entering within the veil as clear as that of
Christ s. This faith will prove itself in longsuffering. First, as
we diligently, perseveringly hold fast, and gaze and draw nigh
and wait on God to take us within the veil; and then, as
within the veil, in deepest humility and meekness and patience
and resignation to God, we wait upon Him in service, to perfect
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