Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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LET US DRA W NIGH 49
there, the word comes again, Draw near with a
true heart 1 Your answer is, Yes, Lord ; with
my whole heart—with that new heart Thou Thyself
hast given me. You make the surrender of
yourself, to live only and always in His presence
and for His service. The voice speaks again
Let it be To-day—Now, in fulness of faith.
You have accepted what He offers. You have
given what He asks. You believe that He
accepts the surrender. You believe that the
great Priest over the house takes possession of
your inner life, and brings you before God.
yet you wonder you feel so little changed.
And
You
feel just like the old self you were. Now is the
time to listen to the voice—In fulness
not of feeling ! Look
of faith,
to God, who is able to do
above what we ask or think. Trust His power.
Look to Jesus on the throne, living there to
bring you in. Claim the Spirit of the exalted
One as His pentecostal gift. Eemember these
are all divine, spiritual mysteries of grace, to be
revealed in you. Apart from feeling, without
feeling, in fulness of faith, in bare, naked faith
that honours God, enter in.
Eeckon yourself to
be indeed alive to God in Christ Jesus, taken in
into His presence, His love, His very heart.
1. Be followers of those who, through faith and longsuffering,
inherited the promises. Faith accepts and rejoices in the gift;
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