Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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seek to do what is needed to make it true, He
calls again, Stretch, forth thy hand. When He
spake that to him of the withered arm, whom
He had called to rise up and stand before Him,
the man felt the power of
Jesus' eye and voice,
and he stretched it forth. Do thou, likewise,
stretch forth, lift up, reach out that withered
heitrt of thine, that has so been cherishing its
own impotence,— stretch forth, and it will be
made whole. In the very act of obeying the
call to enter in, it will prove itself a true heart
—a heart ready to obey and to trust its blessed
Lord, a heart ready to give up all, and find its
life in the secret of His presence. Yes, Jesus,
th*i great Priest over the house of God, the
Mediator of the new covenant, with the new
heart secured thee, calls, Draw nigh with a
true heart.
During these last years God has
been rousing
His people to the pursuit of holiness, that is, to
seek the entrance into the Holiest, a life in full
fellowship with Himself, the Holy One. In
the teaching which He has been using to this
end, two words have been very much in the
foreground— Consecration and Faith. These
are just what are here put first— a true heart and
the fulness of faith. The true heart is nothing
but true consecration, the spirit that longs to