Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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in it the power of true divinity that filleth all.
Just as Adam was our forerunner into death,
and we have all the power of his sin and death
working in us and drawing us on, so we have
Jesus as our Forerunner into God's presence,
with all the power of
His death and His resurrection-life
working in us, and drawing and
lifting us with divine energy into the Father's
presence. God Las no delight in a fellowship
with anything but the image of His Beloved
3on. There can be no true worship or
drawing nigh to God except as we are likeminded
to Christ, and come with His pirit and
disposition in us. And this is now His work, as
High Priest bringing us nigh to God, that He
breathes His own disposition in us, and we
draw near to God, in living union with Him.
Yes, Jesus, with His divine,
His heavenly life,
in the power of the throne on which He is
seated, has entered into the deepest ground of
our being, where Adam, where sin, do their
work, and is there, unceasingly carrying out His
work of lifting us heavenward into God's
presence, and of making God's heavenly presence
here on earth our portion.
And why is it we enjoy this so little % And
what is needed that we come to its full enjoyment?
And how can Jesus truly be to us a