Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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which His priestly action, His watchful care of us, His loving
sympathy and succour, His working in us in the power of our
endless life, is not in full operation. Therefore He can save
completely, that is, there need never be a moment in which the
experience of His saving power is intermitted, in which the
salvation He has wrought does not save. To confirm this, it is
added, seeing He ever liveth to
make intercession for them.
Without ceasing there streams forth from Him to the Father the
prayer of H is love for every one and every need of those that
belong to Him ; His very person and presence is that prayer, so
closely and so inseparably is He identified with those He calls
His brethren. And without ceasing there streams forth to
Him from the Father the answer of His good pleasure, and
the power of the Holy Spirit, bearing that answer. And
even so, without ceasing, there streams forth from Him to each
member of His body the grace for the timely help. Because
He ever liveth to make intercession, without one moment's
intermission, therefore He is able to save completely.
He is able to save completely. The connection of the
jM-omise with the character and work of Christ shows us what it
means. The great complaint of Christians is that their experience
is so changeful—that the blessed sense of God's love
and grace passes away, and that what they know of the keeping,
cleansing, power of Christ does not last ;
the
sense of nearness
to God does not abide continually. It is somehow as if there
is a necessity of its being lost. With change of circumstances,
alas, comes too often change in the nearness of God and His
saving power. Could what Christ does for them at times but
be maintained continuously, could it but abide,— their joy would
be full, their salvation complete. We have here the very
promise such Christians need. Because he abideth for ever,