Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

36 LET US DRA W NIGH
great High Priest, giving us our actual life in
the Holiest of All %
One great reason of failure
is what the Epistle so insists on : our ignorance
of the spiritual perfection-truth it seeks to teach,
and specially of what the Holy Spirit witnesseth
of the way into the Holiest. And what we
need is just this, that the Holy Spirit Himself,
that Jesus in the Holy Spirit, be waited on, and
accepted, and trusted to do the work in power.
Do keep a firm hold of this truth, that when
our great High Priest once for all entered the
Holiest, and sat down on the throne, it was the
Holy Ghost sent down in His power into the
hearts of His disciples, through wliom the heavenly
High Priest became a present and an indwelling
Saviour, bringing down with Him into their
hearts the presence and the love of God. That
pentecostal gift, in the power of the glorified
Christ, is the one indispensable channel of the
power of Jesus' priesthood. Nothing but the
fulness of the Spirit in daily life, making Jesus
present within us, abiding
continually, can keep
us in the presence of God as full experience.
Jesus is no outward High Priest, who can save
us as from a distance. No, as the Second Adam,
He is to us nowhere, if He is not in us. The
one reason why the truth of His Heavenly
Priesthood is so often powerless, is because we