The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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much of His Spirit as can be. If we are to be led by Him in
the new and living way, to live with Him in the Holiest of All,
we must, like Him, live here as pilgrims and strangers.
Faith makes heavenly-minded.
As partakers of a heavenly
calling we look to Jesus, who endured the cross and despised
the shame. Separation from the world is essential to a life of
faith. Adam s fall was a fall under the power and spirit
of this visible world. Christ gave Himself that He might
deliver us from this present
evil world. The world we live
in, the so-called Christian world, is still the same that rejected
Christ. While professing His name, its spirit
the things that are seen, its pursuit of pleasure
of devotion to
and riches
and honour, its delight and its boasting of culture and pro
sperity, is a spirit utterly at variance with the Christlike,
with the heavenly - minded spirit.
This is the reason why
so many seek to grow in faith, and fail. They would fain
live in the Holiest, but they would do so without forsaking the
world. Abraham and his seed lived as men seeking after a
country of their own, as those who desire a better country,
that is, a heavenly. Until the kingdom of heaven in its power,
as it came down from the throne of God in heaven, becomes our
one desire, and until we leave all and sell all for this pearl of
great price, our faith cannot stand in the power of God, or
overcome the world. If it be not our one desire to live as those
who are partakers of a heavenly calling, yea, partakers of
Christ, as those who are pilgrims and strangers, and make it
manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own,
as those who desire a heavenly country, no wonder if God is
ashamed to be called our God, and our souls cannot taste the
joy of a walk in His presence.
There is
nothing so heart-searching as faith. If we profess