The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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LXXVII.
LO,
I AM COME TO DO THY WILL.
X. 8. Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither had pleasure therein (the
which are offered according to the law),
9. Then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second.
10. By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the
body of Jesus Christ once for all.
ON the word, A body didst thou prepare for Me, as the expres
sion of God s claim, there follows now in the Psalm that other
on the surrender to that claim Lo, I am come to do Thy will.
In this, the doing of God s will, we have the destiny of the
creature, the blessedness of heaven, the inmost secret of redemp
tion. In this consists the worth of Christ s sacrifice, and this
alone is the reason why His blood prevails. The path He
opened up to God, the path He walked in and we walk in, to
enter the Holiest, is I am come to do Thy will. It is through
God s will alone we enter in to God Himself. The central
blessing, Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant, gives us, when
He gives us Himself, is a heart in which the will of God lives.
We have more than once spoken of the two aspects of Christ s
death substitution with the atonement it
wrought, and fellow
ship with the conformity it brings. The two are inseparably con
nected. As long as we look to the substitution simply
as an