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