The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

526 tTbe 1)olie0t of
all the changes in the Church around us, through all the changes
in the spiritual life within us, He changeth not, He is ever the
same. As our faith sees and seizes hold upon this, and rests
upon Him as the same for ever, it will participate
in His
unchangeableness like Him it will know no change, but always
;
be the same.
we have now so often
Throughout the Epistle
seen that the
great defect in Christians is that there is no steadfast, certain
progress, no holding fast firm to the end, they abide not con
tinually. As with Israel in the old covenant they continued
not in it. And the great difference of the new covenant, the
wonderful perfection of Christ s redemption and eternal priest
hood is to be, that now there is to be an end to backsliding.
The new life is no longer to be fitful and changing and inter
mittent ;
its measure and its
power,
its anchor within the veil is
Priest after the
to be the unceasing action of Jesus the High
power of an endless life, maintaining for us in heaven, and
within us in the heart, the free, undisturbed, abiding fellowship
with God. And, as we have more than once said, the only
reason why so many young
or earnest Christians never attain to
this unchanging life is They do not know Jesus. They do not
know him by faith, as the Epistle has set Him before those who
are pressing on to perfection as a Priest for ever, who ever
liveth to pray, and therefore
every moment will watch over and
do not know that
keep the soul that trusts Him for it. They
what He has done for one day, or one hour, He will do every
day and every hour,
ever, He always is the same.
because yesterday and to-day, yea and for
All that He was yesterday, He is to-day. All that He was
yesterday, in the past of the great eternity, as the object of the
Father s delight, and the bearer and dispenser of the Father s