The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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have hopelessly struggled. The surrender of all becomes only
possible when the soul sees how truly and entirely Jesus, the
Mediator of the new covenant, has undertaken for all, and
engages to put His own delight in God s law into the heart,
to live in all God s will.
to give the will and the strength
That faith gives the courage to place oneself before Christ and
to say Lord, here am I, ready to be led by Thee in the
new and living way of death to my will, and a life
in God s will
alone : I
give up
all to Thee.
Then comes, accompanying this surrender, the faith that
Jesus does now accept and undertake for all. The more general
faith in His power, which led to the surrender, becomes a
personal appropriation. I know that I cannot lift or force
myself into the Holiest I trust Jesus, as my almighty and
ever-living Priest on the throne, even now, at this moment, to
take me in within the veil, to take charge of me there, and
enable me to walk up and down before the face of the living
God, and serve Him. However high and impossible such a life
appears, I cannot doubt but that He who with His blood opened
the Holiest for me will take me in ;
and that He who sits on the
throne as my great High Priest is able and faithful to keep me
in God s presence. Apart from any feeling or experience of a
change I believe He takes me in, and I
say Thank God, I am
:
Let us draw nigh in fulness of faith.
in the Holiest.
And then follows, the life offaith in the Holiest, holding fast
my confidence and the glorying of hope firm to the end.
I believe Jesus takes me in to the fulfilment and the
experience of all the new covenant blessings,
and makes me
inherit all the promises. I look to Him day by day to seal
my faith with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven in my
heart. The disciples, when their Lord ascended the throne,