Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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Jesus will bring you, and where He will keep you. It is the
rest in which you can live every hour, free from care and anxiety,
free from weariness and wanderings, always resting in the rest
that trusts God for all.
Believe this.
Then cease from your oivn works. Not as if you had to
attain this perfectly before entering into God's rest. No, but
consent, yield, be willing that all
self-working should come to an
end. Cease from self Where there is life there is action ;
the
self-life will seek to work, except you give up self into the death
of Christ ; with Him you are buried, in Him you live. As Christ
said. Hate your own life, lose it. Cease from your own works,
and bow in deep humility and helplessness of all good, as
nothing before God.
Trust Jesus as your Joshua, who brings you in, even now.
Israel had simply to trust and obey and follow Joshua. Set
your heart on Him who has entered the heavens to appear
before God for us. Claim Jesus as yours, not only in His cross
and death and resurrection, but above all in His heavenliness, in
His possession of the rest of heaven. Claim Him, and leave Him
to do His blessed work. You need not understand all. Your
feelings may not be what you would wish.
Trust Him, who has
done all for you in earth and heaven, to do all in your heart
too.
And then be a Jollozver of them zvho through faith and
patience have inherited the promises. Israel passed in one day
through Jordan into Canaan, but did not in one day come to
the perfect rest. It is at the end of the life of Joshua we read,
" The Lord gave them rest round about." Enter to-day into the
rest. Though all may not be bright at once, look to Jesus, your
Joshua, and leave all in His hands. Come away out of self, and
live in Him. Rest in God whatever happen. Think of His