Holiest of All by Andrew Murray

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that can promote, and prove, and provoke others to, love is
be studied and performed.
And with love good works too. The Church has been redeemed
by Christ, to prove to the world what power He has to
cleanse from sin, to conquer evil, to restore to holiness and to
goodness. Let us consider one another, in every possible way,
to provoke, to stir up, to help to love and good works.
The chief thought is this : Life in the Holiest must be a life
of love. As earnest as the injunction. Let tis draw nigh in
fulness of faith. Let 21s hold fast the confession of our hope, is
this, Let us cottsider otte another to provoke unto love and good
works. God is love. And all He has done for us in His Son,
as revealed in this Epistle, is love. And Christ is love. And
there can be no real access to God as a union with Him in His
holy will, no real communion with Him, but in the Spirit of love.
Our entering into the Holiest is mere imagination, if we do
not yield ourselves to the love of God in Christ, to be filled
and used for the welfare and joy of our fellow-men.
O Christian ! study what love is. Study it in the word, in
Christ, in God. As thou seest Him to be an ever-flowing fountain
of all goodness, who has His very being and glory in this,
that He lives in all that exists, and communicates to all
to
His own
blessedness and perfection as far as they are capable of it, thou
wilt learn to acknowledge that he that loveth not hath not known
God. And thou wilt learn, too, to admit more deeply and truly
than ever before, that
no effort of thy will can bring forth love
it must be given thee from above. This will become to thee
one of the chief joys and beauties of the Holiest of All, that there
thou canst wait on the God of love to fill thee with His love.
God hath the power to shed abroad His love in our hearts, by
the Holy Spirit given unto us. He has promised to give Christ,