Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

LET US DRA W NIGH 53
must be harmony between the Holiest of All
and the soul that is to enter in. That harmony
begins with, and has its
everlasting security in,
the blood of sprinkling. The ever-living and
never-ceasing energy of
the blood, ever speaking
better things than the blood of Abel, and keeping
heaven open for me, has a like effect on my
heart. The blood has put away the thought of
sin from God ; He remembers it no more for
ever. The blood puts away the thought of sin
in me too, taking away the evil conscience that
condemns me. The better things which the
blood speaks in heaven, it speaks in my heart
too; it lifts me into that heavenly sphere, that
new state of life and intercourse with God, in
which an end has been made of sin, and the
soul is taken in to the full and perfect enjoyment
of the love of God.
The action of the blood in heaven is unceasing—never
a moment but the blood is the
delight of the Father and the song of the
ransomed. Draw nigh when thou wilt, the
blood is there, abiding continually; not a
moment's interval. And even so will it be in
the soul that enters in. The difficulty that
staggers the faith of many lies just here ; they
cannot understand how one who has to live
amid the cares and engagements and com-