Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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rule or measure is what God has said to be
possible to Him. When we look at our lives
and their failures, at our sinfulness and weakness,
at those around us, the thought will come up —
Is it for me % Dare I expect it % Is it not wearying
myself in vain to think of it or to seek for
it? Soul! the God who redeemed thee, when
an enemy, with the blood of His Son— what
thinkest thou? would He not be willing thus to
take thee to His heart 1 He who raised Jesus
when He had died under the curse of thy sins,
from the death of the grave to the throne of His
glory, would He not be able to take thee too, and
give thee a place within the veil % Do believe
it. He longs to do it ; He is able to do it. His
home and His heart have room for thee even
now. Let us draw near in fulness of faith.
In fulness of faith. The word has also reference
to that full measure of faith which is found
when the whole heart is filled and possessed by
it. We have very little idea of how the weakness
of our faith is owing to its being more a
confident persuasion of the mind with regard to
the truth of what God says, than the living
apprehension and possession of the eternal
spiritual realities of the truth with the heart
The Holy Spirit asks us first for a true heart,
and then at once, as its first exercise, for fulness