Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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