Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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LET US DRA W NIGH 1
come you to His bosom. Henceforth you are
to live with Him. This is the message of
the Epistle : Child ! thy Father longs for thee
to enter, to dwell, and to go out no more for
ever.
Oh, the blessedness of a life in the Holiest
Here the Father's face is seen and His love
tasted. Here His holiness is revealed, and the
soul made partaker of it. Here the sacrifice of
love and worship and adoration, the incense of
prayer and supplication, is offered in power.
Here the soul, in God's Presence, grows into
more complete oneness with Christ, and into
more entire conformity to His likeness. Here,
in union with Christ in His unceasing intercession,
we are emboldened to take
our place as
intercessors, who can have power with God and
prevail. Here the outpouring of the Spirit is
known as an ever-streaming, overflowing river,
from under the throne of God and the Lamb.
Here the soul mounts up as on eagles' wings, the
strength is renewed, and the blessing and the
power and the love are imparted with which God's
priests can go out to bless a dying world. Here
each day we may experience the fresh anointing
with which we go out to be the
bearers and the
witnesses and the channels of
God's salvation to
men, the living
instruments through whom our
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