The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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life and love, He is to-day. All that He was yesterday, in His
life
upon earth, with His meek and gentle and sympathising
heart, He is to-day. All that He has been on His throne, in
sending down His Spirit, in working mighty things in and on
behalf of His Church, in revealing Himself in joy unspeakable
to trusting souls, in meeting and blessing you who read this,
He is to-day. All that He is, He can be to you to-day. And
the only reason that you ever had to look back to a yesterday
that was better than to-day, was that you did not know, or that
you failed to trust, this Jesus, who was waiting to make each
to-day a new revelation and a larger experience of the grace of
yesterday.
The same yesterday and to-day, and for ever.
Yea, all that
He has been He will be for ever, even from henceforth, from the
And all that He will be for
present moment, and for evermore.
ever He is at this moment for you. Think of Him in the fullest
revelation of His glory, in the inconceivable closeness of the
union with Him and His love which shall be yours hereafter, and
let faith say, All that He ever will be, He is to-day. In the
external revelation there may be change and advance, in Jesus
Christ Himself none. All that He can in eternity be He is to
you to-day the same to-day and for ever. Amid all the
changes in the Church and the circumstances around us, or in
our heart within us, in this one word is a strength and a joy
nothing can take away Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and
:
to-day, yea and for ever.
To-day! Even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day! Yes,
To-day, claim and trust this unchanging Jesus as your life. His
unchangeableness enters into the faith that feeds upon it, and
communicates itself to it ; yea, imparts itself to the soul that
clings to Him as such. Look not at yourself, your feelings or