The Holiest of All by Andrew Murray eBook & audio book

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By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed
by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made
out of things which do appear. This visible world is to man
his great temptation to forget God. F"aith is the eye with
which he can see God in all, which makes every part of it the
transparent revelation of the nearness and goodness of God.
By faith we understand that all was framed by God
;
by faith
we see divinity and omnipotence in all, so that what is seen is
known as made out of things that do not appear. T/ie invisible
things of Him from the creation of the zvorld are clearly seen,
ci>e7i His eternal power and Godhead. Faith sees His superscription
on every part of His handiwork, sees it all pervaded
by the living God ;
surrounded by the things that perish and
pass away, it yet stands in the midst of eternity, it knows
itself allied to the unchangeable One. The world, instead of
being a hindrance, becomes a help in revealing the everlasting
God. And faith finds its life and its delight and its everincreasing
strength in meeting everywhere the God who delights
to bear witness of Himself to them that seek after Him.
1. Faith is mostly thought of as a power by which we grasp the heavenly things, and we
weary ourselves in vain attempts to do so. No, faith is the substance, the substructure, that the
divine things lay in me, the proof they give in me of their actual reality.
Just as the light of the
sun is its own evidence and proof, so with the liglit of Qod. The more we see this, the more
confident will our hope be that they will prove themselves to us, and the more meeli end patient
and humble will be the spirit in which we wait for their self-revelation.
2. The rules for the strengthening of faith are thus very simple. Regard the unseen world as
an actually existing kingdom of divine truth and power, which seeks to conquer and get possession
of and bless you. Accept the measure of faith there is within you as the proof of its existence
and operation, the pledge of a fuller revelation.
Accept all that is revealed of it in the word as a
finger-post to wake the longing and to show the way to the full possession. Set the heart open,
in holy separation, from the world ; in meditation and adoration and expectation the unseen world
can become more real and more near than the seen.
3. Nothing can be a proof of anything but that which partakes of the nature of the thing
proved. Thus it is with faith and the spiritual world.