Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

14 LET US DRA W NIGH
our life there, has been provided in Christ : let
us draw near, here let us abide. God does in
very deed mean that every child of His should
always dicell in His presence.
Enter into the Holiest. It is a call to the
Hebrews to come out of that life of unbelief and
sloth, that leads to a departing from the living
God, and to enter into the promised land, the
rest of God, a life in His fellowship and favour.
It is a call to all lukewarm, half-hearted Christians,
no longer to remain in the outer court of
the tabernacle, content with the hope that their
sins are pardoned. Nor even to be satisfied with
having entered the Holy Place, and there doing
the service of the tabernacle, while the veil still
hinders the full fellowship with the living God
and His love. It calls to enter in through the
rent veil, into the place into which the blood
has
been brought, and where the High Priest
lives, there to live and walk and work, always
in the presence of the Father. It is a call
to all doubting, thirsting believers, who long
for a better life than they have yet known,
to cast aside their doubts, and to believe that
this is what Christ has indeed done and brought
within the reach of each one of us : He has
opened the way into the Holiest ! This is the
salvation which He has accomplished, and which