The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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for God, and God can become within us what He is in the
universe, what He is in His very nature the all in all.
The history of Israel, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
of God, is a real type and figure
of the life of Christ in the soul.
In the illustrations taken from the beginning of that history,
have some of the chief steps of the Christian life strikingly
illustrated. By faith Moses, with Israel, left Egypt, not fearing
the wrath of the king who would pursue them. That is ever
the first step coming out, being separate, parting with sin,
bidding farewell to Egypt, the land of our birth, and not fearing
the wrath of Satan or the world. It is
by nothing but faith
that this can be done, definitely and perseveringly. But faith
can enable us to do it,
as it did Moses. For he endured, as
seeing Him who is invisible. Here is the mighty power of
faith ;
it sees what others cannot see. It sees, amid the thousand
things others see and are guided by, something infinitely greater
it sees God. No wonder it leads a man to act differently from
other men. On everything
it looks at, the bright light of
eternity, of God, is shining. No wonder that under the inspira
tion of that Vision it can do mighty deeds, for it sees God its
helper and strength.
Let me here say to every believer that just as, in any pursuit,
the eye by practice can be trained to see what others cannot
see, so the eye of faith can be trained to see God everywhere.
Abide in His presence
till the heart is filled with it.
Recognise
Him in every thing that happens. Seek to walk in the light
of His countenance. Seeing the Invisible will make it easy to
forsake the world and do the will of God.
By faith he kept, with Israel, the passover and the
sprinkling of blood, that the destroyer should not touch
them. When faith is
ready for the first step, the forsaking of
we