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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56 LET US DRAW NIGH<br />
<strong>Let</strong> us draw near, with a true heart, in<br />
fulness of faith, having- our hearts sprinkled<br />
from an evil conscience. Oh, let us not bring<br />
reproach upon the blood of the Lamb <strong>by</strong> not<br />
believing in its power to give us perfect access<br />
to God. <strong>Let</strong> us listen and hear them sing<br />
without ceasing the praise of the blood of the<br />
Lamb in heaven ; as we trust and honour and<br />
reioice in it, we shall enter the heaven of God's<br />
presence.<br />
1. " Wherein is the blood of Jesus better than the blood of<br />
goats and bulls, if it cannot free us from the spirit of bondage<br />
and the euil conscience, if it cannot giue us a full glad confidence<br />
before God ? What Jesus hath perfected, we can experience and<br />
enjoy as perfect in our heart and conscience. You dishonour<br />
your Saviour when you do not seek to experience that He has<br />
perfected you as touching the conscience,<br />
and when you do not<br />
Hue with a heart entirely cleansed from the evi' conscience."—<br />
STEINHQFtH.<br />
2. A true heart — a heart sprinkled : you see everything<br />
depends upon the heart. God can do nothing for us from<br />
without, only <strong>by</strong> what He can put into the heart. Of all that<br />
Jesus is and does as High Priest in heaven I cannot have the least<br />
experience, but as it is revealed in the heart. The whole work of<br />
the Holy Spirit is in the heart. <strong>Let</strong> us draw nigh with a true<br />
heart, a sprinkled heart, our inmost being under the heavenly<br />
power of the blood, entirely and unceasingly.<br />
outwardly, but we are to receive it inwardly, to drink it.<br />
As with the water, so with the blood. They are for inward<br />
as well as outward application."—H. Bonar. And because<br />
the twofold application is<br />
essentially one, the sprinkling is<br />
in a power that purifies and quickens the whole inner life.