Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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42 LET US DRA W NIGH
found in God its highest good. Eeligion is
much more a thing of the head and its activities,
of imagination and conception and wishes, which
are but the old figures and shadows over again,
than of the heart and its life ; much more a thing
of the human will and its power, than of that
Spirit which God gives within us. The Spirit
of Jesus makes every word of confession of sin,
or of surrender to God's will, every act of trust
in His grace, a living reality,
the true expression
of our inmost being. This constitutes the true
heart.
The invitation comes :
Let us draw near with
a true heart. Let no one hold back for fear,
"my heart is not true." There is no way for
obtaining the true heart, but by acting it. God
has given you, as His child, a new heart—
wonderful gift, if you but knew it. Through
ignorance or unbelief or disobedience it has
grown feeble and withered ; its beating can,
nevertheless, still be felt. The Epistle, with its
solemn warnings and its blessed teaching, has
come to bring arousing and healing. Even as
Christ said to the man with the withered hand,
Stand forth, He calls to you from
His throne in
heaven, Eke, and come and enter in with a true
heart. As you hesitate, and look within to feel
and to find out if the heart is true, and in vain