Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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reason was tha^ tney had not clean hands, they were not ready
to have everything that is not perfectly holy discovered and put
away. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye
double-minded— is a word that always holds. The blood of Christ
has unspeakable and everlasting power for the soul that, with a
true heart, is ready to put away every sin. Where this is not
the case, and the body is
not washed with pure water, the perfect
conscience which the blood gives cannot be enjoyed.
Our body washed with pure water. It is not only in spirit,
but with the body too, we enter into the Holiest of All. It is on
us here, where we are in the body, that the presence of God
descends. Our whole life in the flesh is to be in that presence
;
the body is very specially the temple, and in charge of the Holy
Spirit ; in the body the Father is to be glorified. Our whole
being, body, soul, and spirit, is in the power of the Holy Spirit,
a holy sacrifice upon the altar, a living sacrifice for service before
God. With the body, too, we live and walk in the Holiest.
Our eating and drinking, our sleeping, our clothing, our labour
and relaxation,—all these things have more influence on our
spiritual life than we know. They often interrupt and break
the fellowship we seek to maintain. The heart and the body
are inseparably joined— a heart sprinkled from an evil conscience
needs a body washed with pure water.
When He cometh into the world He saith, A body didst
thou prepare for Me.
each of His followers.
This word of Christ must be adopted by
Nothing will help us to live in this world,
and keep ourselves unspotted, but the Spirit that was in Christ,
that looked upon His body as prepared by God for His
service ;
that looks upon our body as prepared by Him too, that
we might offer it to Him. Like Christ we too have a body, in
which the Holy Spirit dv/ells. Like Christ we too must yield