The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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that God can reveal in the opened
tenderness and all the saving power of His love.
heart of His child all the
Without trial
there could be no school of faith, no growth of spiritual
character, no strength of will given up to God and clinging to
Him. Let us bless God for every trial, small or great
: it gives
us a grand opportunity for putting the crown upon the head of
God, and of being made fit that He crown us too.
Another thought of no less importance, that comes as we
think of the achievements of faith in the history of Israel, is how
closely they were all identified with the public welfare, with lives
devoted to the cause of God and the people. Selfishness is the
death of faith. How can ye believe who take honour one of
another f As long as we seek to be strong in faith, for the sake
of our own comfort and goodness, and the possession of power,
even if we dream of using
it all for others, when once we obtain
it, we shall fail. It is the soul that at once, in its weakness,
gives itself up for the sake of God and others, that will find in
that self-sacrifice the need and the right to claim God s
mighty
help. Gideon and Barak, David and Samuel, they were all
men whose names and whose faith would never have been known,
but that they lived for their nation and God s cause in it, that
they were God s chosen instruments for doing His redeeming
work in His people.
The sphere of God s special revelation is now no longer Israel,
but the world. What a work there is to be done in it !
Among
Christians and heathen, in church and mission and school, in
temperance and purity work, in the great fight against iniquity
and world liness in every shape, in larger and smaller circles
what room, what need for the heroes of faith to subdue kingdoms,
to work righteousness, to obtain promises Let each of us offer
!
himself to God for the struggle. And as we do so, let us