Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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44 LET US DRA W NIGH
live wholly for God, that gladly gives up everything
that it may live wholly for
above all yields up itself, as the key of
Him, and that
the inner
life, into His keeping and rule. True religion
is an inward life, in the power of the Holy
Spirit. The true heart does indeed enter into
the true sanctuary, the blessed secret of God's
presence, to abide there all the life through.
Let us enter in into the inner sanctuary of God's
love, and the Spirit will enter into the inner
sanctuary of our love, into our heart. Let us
draw nigh with a true heart—longing, ready,
utterly given up to desire—and receive the
blessing.
1. If you look at your own constitution, you see how the head
and the heart are the two great centres of life and action.
Much thought and study make the head weary. Strong emotion
or excitement affects the heart. It is the heart God asks—the
power of desire and affection and will. The head and the heart
are in partnership. God tells us that the heart must rule and
lead, that it is the heart He wants. Our religion has been too
much that of the head—hearing and reading and thinking. Let
us beware of allowing these to lead us astray. Let them stand
aside at times. Let us give the heart time to assert its supremacy.
Let us draw nigh with a true heart.
2. A true heart—true in what it says that it thinks of itself
true in what it says that it believes of God ; true in what it
professes to take from God and to give to Him.
3. It is the heart God wants to dwell in. It is in the state of
the heart God wants to prove His power to bless. It is in the
heart the love and the joy of God are to be known. Let U8 draw
near with a irus heart.