Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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living way. A way always needs a living man
to move upon it ; it does not impart either life
or strength. This way, the way of obedience
and suffering and self-sacrifice and death, however
hard it appears, and to nature utterly impossible,
is a living tray. It not only opens a
track, but supplies the strength to carry the
traveller along. It acts in the power of the
endless life, in which Christ was made a High
Priest. We saw how the Holy Spirit watches
over the way into the Holiest, and how He, as
the eternal Spirit, enabled Christ, in opening
the way, to offer Himself without spot unto
God; it is He whose mighty energy pervades
this way, and inspires it with life divine. As
we are made partakers of Christ, as we come to
God through Him, His life, the law of the Spirit
of life in Christ Jesus, takes possession of us,
and in His strength we follow in the footsteps
of Christ Jesus. The way into the Holiest is
the living way of perfect conformity to Jesus,
wrought in us by His Spirit.
The new and living way through the rent
veil into the Holiest. We now know what it
is : it is the way of death. Yes, the way of
death is the way of life. The only way to be
set free from our fallen nature, with the curse
and power of sin resting on it, is to die to it.