The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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that promised ! And in due time God did His omnipotent
quickening work, and Sarah received power to become the
mother of Isaac and of JESUS. And down the ages her voice of
witness is heard : Trust God ;
He is faithful ;
He is the living
God ;
He gives life from the dead.
The teaching of the Epistle speaks to us of the living God
and the city of the living God to which we are come ;
of a High
Priest who liveth, and liveth for ever, and of a work that He
does within us, the power of an endless life ;
of a new and
living way, in which we are borne into God s presence ; of the
law of life written in the heart, and of a life within the veil,
in the Holiest of All. This new and wondrous life it has revealed
is
nothing less than the life and work of God in the soul. To
the question which is so often asked, Why we do not experience
that life more mightily, there can be but one answer : We do
not allow God in Christ to work it in us ;
we do not believe in the
continual indwelling and working of the Holy Spirit.
Even as
Sarah failed when she sought for the promised son by giving
Hagar to Abraham, we fail because we seek by our effort to do
what God will not allow any but Himself to do. Let us, like
Sarah, come back from our self-devised ways, and enter by the
new and living way; the way of death to nature and to self;
the way of life through the Holy Spirit, into the life which God
alone can maintain.
Faith is the power by which we take up into
our being, and
yield ourselves up to and become one with the object our heart
clings to and reposes on. God hath spoken to us in His Son.
His Son is the great promise to us, the token and the pledge of
what God will make us.
Let us look to the promise, let us look
to the Son, let us look to the faithful One who has promised,
and with whom it is impossible to lie, and we shall receive power