The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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spiritual sense by which we recognise the presence and
character of the unseen God ;
both that He is, and that He
rewards the seeker. Desire is the root of faith ;
without a
hunger for God His existence is a matter of indifference ;
the
knowledge of His being
does not affect the soul. Faith seeks
for God ; it believes that He is ;
it
keeps the heart open towards
Him ;
it bows in humility and hope for Him to make Himself
known. To know God, to see God in everything and every
where, in our daily life to be conscious of His presence so that
we always walk with Him this is the true nobility of man
;
this is the life that faith lives ;
this is the blessedness Jesus
has now fully revealed in the rending of the veil. Faith can
walk with God. He that cometh to God must believe that
He is. And also a rewarder of them that seek after Him.
Faith believes that God can be found ;
that He can and will
make Himself known ;
that He cares for everyone who truly
longs for Him ;
that He has a divine reward for the seeker
In seeking Him the way may at times be dark and
long, and the progress slow ;
faith honours God with its con
fidence as the God of love and truth ;
He will reward and bless.
after Him.
Let the deep restfulness of this assured conviction be the root of
all
your seeking after God.
The second lesson we have is as to what the reward of faith
will be.
Before his translation he had been well-pleasing to
God. Without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing.
God created us for Himself: it is our destiny, we were made
with the one object of pleasing Him, and being His delight.
God is perfect goodness : a state of life in which we please God
must be one of goodness and perfect blessedness.
In our fallen
state we are well-pleasing by faith. Faith is the surrender to
God. Faith honours God by acknowledging and seeking His