The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

390 tTbe Iboliest of all
lated into our life and character.
There we can learn to worship
in that true humility and meekness and resignation
to God s
will, which does not come at once, but in which we may grow up
even as Jesus did. There we have to learn the holy art of
intercession, so as to pray the prayer that prevails.
There we
wait to receive in larger measure, in ever -fresh communica
tion, that fulness of the Spirit which comes and is maintained
only by close and living contact with Jesus on the throne.
The entrance into the Holiest is
only a beginning. It is
to be a life in which we every hour receive everything from
God, in which God s working is to be all in all. Here, if any
After we have
where, we have need of an infinite hopefulness.
entered in, we shall very probably not find what we expected.
The light and the joy and the power may not come at once.
Within the veil it is still, nay rather it is eminently, a life of faith,
not looking to ourselves, but to God, and hoping in Him. Faith
will still be tried, will perhaps
most be tried when God wants
most to bless. Hope is the daughter of faith, the messenger it
sends out to see what is to come : it is
hope
strength and support of faith.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope.
that becomes the
Men always
speak out of the abundance of the heart of that which they hope
for. We, too, must confess and give expression to our hope.
The confession strengthens the hope; what we utter becomes
clearer and more real to us. It glorifies God. It helps and
encourages those around us. It makes God, and men, and
ourselves, see that we are committed to it.
Let us hold fast the
confession of our hope, that it waver not. Let the better hope
by which we draw nigh to God, by which we enter within the
veil, be the one thing we hold fast and confess with a confidence
that never wavers.