The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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That apart from us they should not be made perfect. The
The word perfect is
better thing God has provided is perfection.
used fourteen times in the Epistle (see v. 14). The law made
nothing perfect. Jesus was Himself, in His obedience and
suffering, made perfect in His human nature, in His will and life
and character, that He might have a true, new, perfect human life
to communicate to us. As the Son perfected for evermore He is
our High Priest, who \\a.v\ng perfected us for ever in His sacrifice,
now brings us, in the communication of that perfection, into real,
inner, living contact with God. And so He is the Perfecter of
our faith ;
makes us His perfect ones, who press on unto per
fection. And our life on earth is meant to be the blessed
experience that God perfects us in every good thing to do His
will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight. Apart
from us they might not be made perfect to us the
;
blessing of
some better thing, of being made perfect, has come.
My fellow-Christians, the old saints had only the promise ;
we have the thing promised, the divine reality, the full inherit
ance of what were to them only the good things to come. The
promise
was sufficient to make them live a wonderful life of
faith. What ought not the effect to be in our lives of having
obtained the promises, having entered on the possession of that
of which the mere promise stirred them so ?
As much greater as
deliverance is than the hope of it, as a divine possession
is than
the promise of it, so much greater
is the better, the perfect
thing God has provided for us, so much greater ought to be
the joy and the holiness and the nearness to God, and the power
of our lives. Is it so ?
If not, the reason must be plain. We do not accept the
possession with the intensity with which they accepted the
promise. Our whole Epistle was written to expose this evil, and