The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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God puts away their iniquities, they will render Him the offering
These are the sacrifices God asks and
of the fruit of their lips.
is well pleased with. These we may bring continually the
fruit of lips which make confession of His name. Speech
is one
of man s most wonderful endowments ;
the power of revealing
and committing himself. Christ has redeemed us wholly for
Himself; our lips belong to Him, and He claims that we shall
speak of Him and praise Him continually.
For our own sake,
for His sake, for the sake of those who hear us, it is an indis
pensable element of a vigorous Christian life. There can be no
continuous joyful life within the veil, if we do not as priests
continually bring these sacrifices.
But to do good and to communicate forget not. In our
Christian fellowship, and in the world around us, Christ has
given us the poor and needy that we may show in them what
we would like to do to Him, if He were on earth. Let the
Christian study to combine a life with God in the Holiest with
lips that praise and confess Him. And this, again, with deeds of
love and kindness and Christian help that prove that the Spirit
of Jesus is
in us, that we are walking in practical fellowship with
His self-sacrifice. And let every act of love and kindness be laid
at God s feet as a sacrifice to Him. For with such sacrifices God
is well pleased. They are to Him a sweeter savour than the
sweetest incense. And as we offer them indeed to Him in faith,
they will bring
our hearts the assurance that we are wellpleasing.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to
them. Obedience and submission, even to men, for the Lord s
sake ;
these, too, are elements of the self-sacrifice, which is wellpleasing
to God. In the New Testament we have no longer a