Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

34 LET US DRA W NIGH
our heart, our will and affections, are to be
delivered from the power of sin, and to taste
and enjoy the putting away of sin as blessed
experience. In our very heart we are to find
and feel the power of His redemption. As
deep and strong as sin proved itself, in its actual
power and its mastery within us, is Jesus to
prove the triumph of redeeming grace.
His one work as Priest over the house of God
is, to bring us into it, and enable us to live there.
He does this by bringing God and the soul into
actual harmony, sympathy, and fellowship with
each other. We saw in chap. viii. how, as Minister
of the sanctuary, He does all that is to be done
in heaven with God ; how, as Mediator of the
new covenant, He does all that is to be done
here on earth, in our heart ; the one as effectu
ally as the other. The two offices are united
in the one great Priest ; in each act of His He
unites both functions, to the soul that knows
what to expect, and trusts Him, for it. Every
movement of Jesus on our behalf in the presence
of God can have its
corresponding movement in
the heart of man.
And how is this effected?— In virtue of His
union with us, and our union with Him. Jesus
is the Second Adam ; the new Head of the race.
He is it in virtue of His real humanity, having