Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

LET US DRAW NIGH 15
He lives to apply in each of us> so that we
shall indeed dwell in the full light of God's
countenance.
Enter into the Holiest. This is, in one short
word, the fruit of Christ's work, the chief lesson
of the Epistle, the one great need of our
Christian life, the complete and perfect salvation
God in Christ gives us to enjoy.
Enter into the Holiest. What Holiest % To
the reader who has gone with us through the
Epistle thus far, it is hardly needful to say, No
other than that very same into which Christ,
when He had rent the veil in His death, entered
through His own blood, to appear before the
face of God for us. It is the Holiest, in which
God dwelt, in which the priests, and even the
high priest,
might not dwell, into which Jesus
entered for us, in which ice now are to dwell.
That Holiest of All is the heavenly place ; but
not heaven, as it is ordinarily understood, as a
locality, distinct and separate from this earth.
The heaven of God is not limited in space in
the same way as a place on earth. There is a
heaven above us, the place of God's special
manifestation. But there is also a spiritual
Where
heaven, as omnipresent as God Himself.
God is, is heaven ; the heaven of His presence
includes this earth too. The Holiest into which