The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

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great salvation in Christ as a whole, to work it in us in each
minutest particular. With God nothing
is small or insignificant.
He must be in things, little as great, All in All.
Working in you that which is pleasing in His sight,
through Jesus Christ. Here we have the explanation of how He
perfects in us every good thing : He works in us through Jesus
Christ. The three persons of the Godhead are indivisibly and
inseparably one. The Father works through the Son and the
Holy Spirit. When Jesus, our Priest-King, ascended the throne,
He sent from the Father the Holy Spirit to be within us, the
power and life of His redemption in heaven. Then the minis
tration of the Spirit, of the inner life, began upon earth God
working in men what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus
Christ dwelling in the heart. Then the fruit of Christ s work
was made manifest ;
men on earth in very deed doing the will
of God, and working what was pleasing in His sight, because He
Himself worked it in them, through Jesus Christ.
Let this parting prayer
teach us a double lesson. It is a
promise of what God will do. He will perfect us put
right position, and give us the right
us in the
condition of heart
in every good thing, to do His will, Himself working
in us
that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ.
Let us read the words until we know in truth what God is
waiting to do. The prayer becomes then a call to us to prayer
and faith. Let us fix our hearts in faith on God and what He
has wrought through
Christ for us. Let us fix them in faith
on what He will do in us through Christ, as surely
and as
mightily. All that God has done in Christ is only a beginning,
a promise, a pledge of what He will do in us. Let that faith
stir our desire to rest content with nothing less than the
actual experience of the truth of this prayer -promise. Let