The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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and the Lamb are not for us alone ;
that there are others within
with whom it is blessed to have fellowship in praising God ;
that
there are some without who need our help to be brought in. It
is into the love of God that we have had access given us ;
that
love enters our hearts ;
and we see ourselves called to live like
Christ in entire devotion to those around us.
Let us consider one another. All the redeemed form one body.
Each one is
dependent on the other, each one is for the welfare of
the other. Let us beware of the self-deception that thinks it
pos
sible to enter the Holiest, into the nearest intercourse with God, in
the spirit of selfishness. It cannot be. The new and living way
Jesus opened up is the way of self-sacrificing love. The entrance
into the Holiest is
given to us as priests, there to be filled with
and to go out and bring God s
the Spirit and the love of Christ,
blessing to others.
Let us consider one another. The same Spirit that said,
Consider Christ Jesus take time, and give attention to know
Him well says to us, Consider one another take time, and
give attention to know the needs of your brethren around you.
How many are there whose circumstances are so unfavourable,
whose knowledge
is so limited, whose whole life is so hopeless,
that there is but little prospect of their ever attaining the better life.
For them there is but one thing to be done : We that are strong
ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our
selves. Each one who begins to see what the blessedness is of
a life in the full surrender to Christ should offer himself to
Christ, to be made His messenger to the feeble and the weary.
Consider one another, to provoke unto love and good
works. Love and good works: These are to be the aim of
the Church in the exercise of its fellowship. Everything that
can hinder love is to be sacrificed and set aside. Everything