Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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salvation He imparts, God's great word to him is To-day. In
Christ all the blessedness of the great eternity is gathered up
in an ever-present Now : the one need of the believer is to know
it, to respond to it, and to meet the To-day, the Now, my child !
of God's grace with the To-day, the Even now, my Father ! of
his faith.
If you would understand the
meaning of this divine To-day,
look at it in its wondrous setting. Even as the Holy Ghost
saith, To-day. Satan's word is ever To-morrow, man's favourite
word, too. To-morrow. Even with the child of God the word
of unbelief is too often To-morrow ; God's demand is too great
for to-day ; God's promise too high ;
we
hope it will come
easier later on. The Holy Ghost saith, To-day. That means
that He who is the mighty power of God is Himself ready to
work in us all that God wills and asks ; it is He who is each
moment pleading for immediate surrender, for a present trust,
because He bears with Him the power of a present salvation.
To-day! it is a word of wonderful promise. It tells that
To-day, this very moment, the wondrous love of God is for
thee— it is even now waiting to be poured out into thy heart
that To-day, all that Christ has done, and is now doing in
heaven, and is able to do within thee—this very day, it is within
thy reach. To-day the Holy Ghost, in whom there is the
pouer to know and claim and enjoy all that the Father and the
Son are waiting to bestow, to-day the Holy Ghost is within
thee, sufficient for every need, equal to every emergency.
With
every call we find in our Bible to full and entire surrender
;
with every promise we read of grace for the
supply of temporal
and spiritual need ; with ever)' prayer we breathe, and every
longing that rules in our heart, there is the Spirit of promise
whispering, To-day.
Even as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day.