The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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THE CONFESSION OF OUR HOPE.
X. 23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for
he is faithful that promised.
THE three chief words of this injunction we have had before
Hold fast, Confession, Hope. If we hold fast the glorying of
our hope firm to the end. Give
Christ the High Priest of our profession.
diligence to the fulness of hope.
Let us hold fast our
confession. A better hope, by which we draw nigh to God.
We have now been brought to see what Christian perfection is,
in that perfect life in God s presence to which Jesus brings us
in :
here, more than ever, we shall need to hold fast our hope.
Faith and hope ever go together.
"Faith is the substance of
things hoped for."
Faith accepts the promise in its divine reality,
hope goes forward to examine and picture and rejoice in the
treasures which faith has accepted. And so here, on the words
Let us draw near in fulness of faith, there follows immediately,
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope. Life in the
Holiest, in the nearness of God, must be characterised by an
infinite hopefulness.
It is not difficult to see the reason of this. Entering into
the Holiest is
only the beginning of the true Christian life. As
we tarry there God can begin to do His work of grace in power.
There the holiness of God can overshadow us, and can be assimi-