Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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look upon it as an external, distant tiling, a
work going on in heaven above ns. The one
cure for this evil is to know that our great
Priest over the house of God is the glorified
Jesus, who in the Holy Spirit is present in us,
and makes His presence and power in heaven
by the Holy Spirit to be as real within us here
as it is above us there.
He is Priest over the house of
God, the place
where God dwells. We are His house too.
And as surely as Jesus ministers in the sanctuary
above, He moment by moment ministers in the
sanctuary within.
"Wherefore, brethren, having,
—not only in gift, not only in the possession of
right and thought, but in our hearts, in our
inmost being,—having- a great Priest over the
house of God, let us draw near. Let Jesus
Himself on the throne, in
His power and love,
be the one desire, and hope, and joy of our
hearts, He will maintain His work in us
as wonderfully as He has accomplished it
for us.
7. Having a great Priest ! You know a great deal of Jesus,
but do you know this, that His chief, His all-comprehensiue work,
is to bring you near, oh, so near, to God ? Has He done this for
you ? If not, ask Him, trust Him for it.
2. It is Jesus Himself I want. Himself alone can satisfy
me. It is in the holy faith of Jesus, the compassionate
sympathiser, in the holy love of Jesus, who calls us brethren,
that we can draw near to God. It is in a heart given up, with