Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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only a figure and a shadow of the true. There
was, indeed, a religious service, and worship,
but it had no real abiding power ; it could not
make the worshipper perfect. The very image,
the substance and reality, of the heavenly things
And
themselves, were only brought by Christ.
God now asks that, to correspond with the true
sanctuary, there shall be a true heart. The old
covenant, with its tabernacle and its worship,
which was but a shadow, could not put the
heart of Israel right. In the new covenant
God's first promise is, / will write my law in the
heart : a neio heart will I give thee. As He has
given His Son, full of grace and truth, in the
power of an endless life,
to work all in us as the
Mediator of a new covenant, to write His law in
our hearts, He calls us to draw nigh with a true
heart.
God asks for the heart. Alas, how many
Christians serve Him still with the service of the
old covenant ! There are seasons for Bible-reading
and praying and church-going. But when
one notices how speedily and naturally and
happily, as soon as it is freed from restraint, the
heart turns to worldly things, one feels how
little there is of the heart in it : it is not the
worship of a true heart, of the whole heart. The
heart, with its life and love and joy, has not yet