Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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16 LET US DRAW NIGH
Christ entered, and into which He opened the
way for us, is the, to nature, inaccessible light
of God's holy presence and love, full union and
communion with Him. Into that Holiest the
soul can enter by the faith that makes us one
with Christ. There it can abide continually,
because Jesus, as we saw in chap, vii., abideth
continually. The Holy Spirit, who first signified
that the way of the Holiest was not yet open
through whom Jesus shed the blood that opened
the way ; who, on the day of Pentecost, witnessed
in the heart of the disciples, that it was now
indeed open ; waits to signify to us what it means
to enter in, and to bring us in. He lifts the
soul up into the Holiest ; He brings the Holiest
down into the soul. In the power of the Holy
Spirit we can now dwell in the nearness and
presence of God.
Enter into the Holiest.
Oh, the glory of the
message. For fifteen centuries Israel had a
sanctuary with a Holiest of All, into which,
under pain of death, no one might enter. Its
one witness .was : man cannot dwell in God's
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presence, cannot abide in His fellowship.
now, how changed is all ! As then the warning
sounded: No admittance! enter not/ so now
the call goes forth : Enter in / the veil is
rent; the Holiest is open; God waits to wel-