Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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will, His life,
as yielded up to God in death, He
entered into the Holiest. Being made in likeness
of men, He humbled Himself, becoming
obedient even unto death. Wherefore also God
highly exalted Him. Through the rent veil He
rose to the throne of God. And this is the way
He dedicated for us. In the death to our own
will we live to God and His will. The very
path in which, as our Substitute, He accomplished
redemption, is the path which He opened
for us to walk in, the path of obedience to the
will of God. " Christ suffered for you, leaving
you an example that ye should follow His steps."
Christ our High Priest is as literally and fully
Leader and Forerunner as He is
Redeemer.
Substitute and
His way is our way. As little as He could
open and enter the Holiest
for us, except in His
path of suffering and obedience and self-sacrifice,
as little can we enter in unless we walk in the
same path.
Jesus said as much of His disciples
as of Himself : Excejrf a corn of wheat fall into
the ground, and die, it abideth alone. He that
hateth his life in this world shall heep it unto
life eternal. Paul's law of life is the law of life
for every believer :
Bearing about in the body the
dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be
manifested in our body. The way into the