The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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heart. Our knowledge of the words of God will profit nothing
but as the heart is opened to receive Himself to fulfil Mis words
in us. Let our first care be, a meek and lowly heart, that waits
on Him. God speaks in His Son, to the heart, and in the heart.
It is in the heart that the voice and the Son of God must be
received. The voice and the word have weight according as we
esteem the speaker. As we realise the glory and the majesty of
God, His holiness and perfection, His love and tenderness, we
shall be ready to sacrifice everything to hear what He speaks,
and receive what He gives. We shall bid all the world around
us, all the world within us, be silent that we may hear aright
the voice of the divine Being speaking to us in the Son of
His love.
7. Salvation will be found in these two things—God speaking to me in His Son, and my heart
opening to hear His voice.
It is not only in order to salvation, as a means to an end that is something
different and higher, that He speaks. No, His speaking gives and is salvation, the revelaton
of Himself to my soul. Let the work of my life be to hearken with a meek and tender
spirit.
2. The Lord opened the heart of Lydia to give heed to the things which were spoken. This is
what we need. God Himself will draw our heart away from all else, and open it to take heed.
Let us ask this very earnestly.
3. Nothing so effectually hinders hearing God's voice as opening the heart too much to other
voices. A heart too deeply interested in the news, the literature, the society of this world, cannot
hear the divine voice. It needs stillness, retirement, concentration, to give God the heed He
claims.