The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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impart this to us. He had the life of God to give ; He
to give it ; He
was able
could only give it by taking us into living fellowship
with Himself. The priesthood of Christ is the God-devised
channel through which the ever-blessed Son could make us partakers
of Himself, and with Himself of all the life and glory He
hath from and in the Father.
And this now is our confidence and safety—that it was the
Father who appointed the Son High Priest. It is the love of the
God against whom we had sinned that gave the Son. It is the
will and the power of this God that ordained and worked out
the great salvation. It is in God Himself our salvation has its
origin, its life, its power. It is God drawing nigh to communicate
Himself to us in
His Son.
Christ glorified not Himself to be made a High Priest :
was God gave Him this glory. Just think what this means.
God counts it an honour for His Son to be the Priest of poor
sinners. Jesus gave up His everlasting glory for the sake of
this new, which He now counts His highest, glory—the honour of
leading guilty men to God.
Every cry of a penitent for mercy,
every prayer of a ransomed soul for more grace and nearer
access to God, He counts these His highest honour, the proofs
of a glory He has received from His Father above the
sonship, or rather
it
glory of
the opening up of the fulness of glory which
His sonship contained.
O thou doubting troubled soul ! wilt thou not now believe
this : that Jesus counts it His highest honour to do His work in
any needy one that turns to Him? The Son of God in His
glory counts His priesthood His highest glory, as the
making us partake as
power of
brethren with Him in the life and love of
the Father. Do let Jesus now become thy confidence. Be
assured that nothing delights Jesus more than to do His work.