Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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54 LE T US DRA W NIGH
panionships of his daily life can every moment
maintain a heart sprinkled from an evil conscience.
They do not know that, if once, with
a heart sprinkled, they enter in, they are in
an inner sanctuary, where everything acts in
the power of the upper world, in the power of
an endless life. They breathe the inspiring,
invigorating air of the Holiest of All ; they
breathe the Holy Spirit, and enjoy the power
of the resurrection life. The Minister of the
heavenly sanctuary is also the Mediator of the
new covenant in our hearts. All He does in
heaven He does each moment on earth in our
heart, if faith will trust Him, for the blood of
sprinkling is the blood of the covenant. . The
abiding continually is possible and sure, because
He who is our High Priest abides continually.
And what may be the reason that so few
Christians can testify of
the joy and the power
of a heart at all times sprinkled from an
evil
conscience ? The answer is, That in the
apprehension of this, as of every other truth,
there are stages according to the measure of
faith and faithfulness. See it in Israel. There
you have three stages. The Israelite who
entered the outer court saw the altar and the
blood sprinkled there, and received such assurance
of pardon as that could give him. The