The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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of the whole heart. The heart, with its life and love and joy,
has not yet found in God its highest good. Religion
is much
more a thing of the head and its activities, than of the heart and
its life, of the human will and its
power, than of that Spirit which
God gives within us.
The invitation comes : Let us draw near with a true heart.
Let no one hold back for fear, my heart is not true. There is
no way for obtaining the true heart, but by acting God it. has
given you, as his child, a new heart a wonderful gift,
if
you but
knew it.
Through ignorance or unbelief or disobedience it has
grown feeble and withered its
; beating can, nevertheless, still be
felt. The Epistle, with its solemn warnings and its blessed
teaching, has come to bring arousing and healing. Even as
Christ said to the man with the withered hand, Stand forth,
He calls to you from His throne in heaven, Rise, and come and
enter in with a true heart. As you hesitate, and look within to
feel and to find out if the heart is true, and in vain to do what
is needed to make it true, He calls again, Stretch forth thy
hand. When He spake that to him of the withered arm, whom
He had called to rise up and stand before Him, the man felt the
power of Jesus eye and voice, and he stretched it forth. Do
thou, likewise. Stretch forth, lift up, reach out that withered
heart of thine, that has so been cherishing its own impotence,
stretch forth, and it will be made whole. Yes, in the very act of
obeying the call to enter in, it will prove itself a true heart a
heart ready to obey and to trust its blessed Lord, a heart ready
to give up
all and find its life in the secret of His presence.
Yes, Jesus, the great Priest over the house of God, the Mediator
of the new covenant, with the new heart secured thee, calls,
Draw nigh with a true heart.
During these last years God has been rousing His people to