Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

52 LET US DRA W NIGH
its twofold sprinkling. First, Christ entered
with it into heaven, to cleanse the heavenly
things, and fulfil the type of the sprinkling on
the mercy-seat. It proved its power with God
in putting away sins.
cleansing our conscience.
And then we read of its
The blood which has
had its mighty operation in heaven itself has
as mighty power in our hearts. It makes us
partakers of a divine and eternal cleansing.
heaven the power of the blood is proved to be
infinite and immeasurable, never - ceasing and
eternal, giving boldness to enter even as Christ
did. As the soul learns to believe and rejoice
in this heavenly power of the blood, it will
claim and receive
In
the very same power in the
heart; Jesus washes us in His blood, with a
washing that is not at times or intervals, but,
in the power of the endless life, a continuous
experience, and we know by faith what it is to
have, in a heavenly reality, a heart sprinkled
from an evil conscience. We walk as those
whose garments have been washed and made
white. And grace is given, even for the life on
earth, to keep our garments undefiled (Eev.
iii. 4).
There will ever
be harmony between a home
and those who dwell in it, between an environment
and the life that is sustained by it. There