The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Sbe Dolicat of BH 477
ELEVENTH SECTION.-xii. 1-14.
The Patience of Hope.
CXII.
LET US RUN WITH PATIENCE THE RACE.
XII. 1. Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily
beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
THE Epistle has taught us that one of the greatest dangers in
the Christian life is the remaining stationary, and not advancing
beyond the beginnings of Christ. It leads almost inevitably to
backsliding and sin. The great virtue the Epistle has sought to
inculcate, next to faith, is patience, the perseverance and longsuffering
that holds fast the beginning firm unto the end, and
diligently presses on to perfection. After having shown us, in
his wonderful picture gallery, what the fulness of faith is, he now
calls us, in view of all the trials life
may bring, and with them
the temptation to grow disheartened and faint, to patience as
the virtue by which faith is to prove its persistence and secure
its reward.
True religion is not only drawing nigh to God once
in the Holiest, but a life to be renewed there every day ;
it is
not only the entrance upon the new and living way, but a con
tinually abiding life and walk in it. It is running a race with
patience. We have seen what life in the Holiest is, in the place
where the power of the eternal life enters and possesses us. Let