The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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so dwelling in
our heart by faith, that we shall be rooted and
grounded in love, and know and have in us something of a love
that passeth knowledge. The very atmosphere of the Holiest is
love. Just as I breathe in the air in which I live, so the soul
that abides in the presence of God breathes the air of the upper
world. The promise held out to us, and the hour of its fulfil
ment, will come, when the love of God will be perfected in us,
and we are made perfect in love. Nowhere can this be but in
the Holiest ;
but there most surely. Let us draw nigh in the
fulness of faith, and consider one another.
While we are only
thinking of others to bring God s love to them, we shall find
God thinking of us, and filling us with it.
1. It is the very essence, the beauty, and the glory of the salvation of Christ, that it is for all.
He that truly receives It, as the Holy Spirit gives it, receives it as a salvation for all, and feels
himself impelled to communicate It to others.
The baptism of fire is a baptism of redeeming love,
but that not as a mere emotion, but a power at once to consider and to care for others.
2. How impossible to love others and give all for them in our strength I This is one of the real
gifts to be waited for in the Holiest of all, to be received in the power of the pentecostal Spirit
the
love of Qod so shed abroad in the heart, that we spontaneously, unceasingly, joyfully love, becausx
It Is our very nature.