The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

518 ttbe fjolieet of BU
and loving care of the saints for
each other mention has more
than once been made. He that enters the Holiest finds there
the God of love. The life and the blessing he receives is
nothing
but the nature of God, the love of God shed abroad in his heart.
He cannot truly enter the presence of God or enter His love
without finding his brethren there : he cannot but prove his love
to God and his joy in God in love to his brethren. On Mount
Sion is the city of God, where God makes the solitary to dwell
in families : we cannot share its blessings in any way but as we
share them with our fellow-citizens.
The command of our text reminds us
of how love may wax
cold, and how it
may be sadly wanting in the Church. In
divisions and separations, in indifference and neglect, in harsh
judgments and unloving thoughts alas, how little has Christ s
Church proved that it has its birth from the God of love, that it
owes its all to Him who loved us, gave us the new command
ment of love, and asked us to prove our love to Him by
bestowing it on our brethren. If our study of the Epistle has
not been in vain, if we have seen or tasted aught of the power
of the eternal redemption it reveals, let us yield ourselves to live
lives of love. Let every child of God, be he ever so feeble or
erring or unlovable, be to us the object of a deep, Christlike
love. Let us show it in the humility and gentleness, the kindli
ness and helpfulness, with which we give ourselves to care for
them and to comfort them. The life in the city of the living
God is a life of love : the more we love, the more the mists will
roll
away and our souls see it in sunshine and beauty. The
greatest of all is love he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in :
God,
and God in him.
Forget not to shew love unto strangers
: for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares. Love must prove
itself