The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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God, maintaining at every cost the Father s will and honour, is
more than all the world can give. It sees that to be made par
taker of His holiness, to have the humility and weakness and
gentleness of the Lamb of God inwrought into us, and like Him
to be made perfect in suffering, is the spirit of heaven, and it
counts nothing too great to gain this treasure. By faith alone,
but by faith most surely, we can, in the midst of the deepest
suffering, be more than conquerors.
We live in a world of suffering. What a privilege that
suffering, instead of unfitting or excluding us, is God s special
invitation, to trust and glorify Him. As we read of all that the
men of faith had done, more than one has thought of his own
unfavourable circumstances and his feeble strength ;
never could
his faith reach to the achievements of the men who are set
before him as an example. What a privilege that there is no
suffering so great and depressing, so little and harassing, but
can be a school of faith, a heavenly instruction in the blessed
art of making God all ;
of proving that, for God s will and sub
mission to it, we are willing to bear all. Faith transfigures
suffering, makes it
transparent with the love of God, the presence
of Jesus, the beauty of holiness, the blessing of heaven.
As long as we live under the influence of the world and the
flesh, all this appears but as a beautiful thought, without reality
or possibility.
Our Epistle
is
speaking
led into the Holiest of All, who are walking
to those whom it has
in the new and
living way of the will of God, of the obedience and the selfsacrifice
and the death of Jesus. It is as we tarry in God s pre
sence, and seek, above everything, His holiness and His will,
that we shall look at things as God does, and regard suffering in
His light. Let this be our aim. Our passage gives new comfirmation
to the one lesson :
By
faith alone ! Would you