Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
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LET US DRA IV NIGH 47<br />
rule or measure is what God has said to be<br />
possible to Him. When we look at our lives<br />
and their failures, at our sinfulness and weakness,<br />
at those around us, the thought will come up —<br />
Is it for me % Dare I expect it % Is it not wearying<br />
myself in vain to think of it or to seek for<br />
it? Soul! the God who redeemed thee, when<br />
an enemy, with the blood of His Son— what<br />
thinkest thou? would He not be willing thus to<br />
take thee to His heart 1 He who raised Jesus<br />
when He had died under the curse of thy sins,<br />
from the death of the grave to the throne of His<br />
glory, would He not be able to take thee too, and<br />
give thee a place within the veil % Do believe<br />
it. He longs to do it ; He is able to do it. His<br />
home and His heart have room for thee even<br />
now. <strong>Let</strong> us draw near in fulness of faith.<br />
In fulness of faith. The word has also reference<br />
to that full measure of faith which is found<br />
when the whole heart is filled and possessed <strong>by</strong><br />
it. We have very little idea of how the weakness<br />
of our faith is owing to its being more a<br />
confident persuasion of the mind with regard to<br />
the truth of what God says, than the living<br />
apprehension and possession of the eternal<br />
spiritual realities of the truth with the heart<br />
The Holy Spirit asks us first for a true heart,<br />
and then at once, as its first exercise, for fulness