Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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enter in. It is this disposition alone that can fit a man spiritually
to apprehend the heavenly mysteries the Epistle opens up.
And surely it ought not to be needful to press the motives
that should urge us to obedience.
Ought not the one motive to
suffice?—the unspeakable privilege God offers me in opening to
me the entrance into His own rest. No words can express the
inconceivable greatness of the gift. God speaks to me in His
Son as one who was created in His image, capable of fellowship
with Himself; as one whom He has redeemed out of the
awful captivity of sin and death, because He longs to have me
living with Him in His love. As one for whom He has made
it possible to live the outer life in the flesh, with the inner life in
Christ, lifted up, kept safe in the Holiest of All, in God's own
rest, — oh, can it be that anyone believes this and does not
respond?
No, let each heart say. Blessed be God, into this rest
would I enter, here would I dwell.
We are so accustomed to the wilderness life of stumbling and
sinning, we have so learnt to take the words God speaks of that
life (iii. lo), "They do alway err in their heart," as descripti\e of
what must be daily Christian
experience, that we hardly count
it a practical possibility to enter into the rest. And even when
the desire has been awakened, the path appears so dark and
unknown. Let me for the sake of such once again gather up
what has been said as to the way to enter in : it may be God, of
His great mercy, may help some to take the step.
The instructions
need be very simple.
First, settle it in your mind, believe with your wliolc heart that
there is such a rest, and that To-day. It is God's rest, in which
He lives ; into which Jesus, as your Joshua, has entered. It is
your rest, prepared for you your land of promise
; ;
the spiritual
state of life which is as surely yours as Jesus is; into which