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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LET US DRA W NIGH 61<br />
When He cometh into the world, He saith, A<br />
body didst thou prepare for Me. This word of<br />
Christ must be adopted <strong>by</strong> each of His followers.<br />
Nothing will help us to live in this world, and<br />
keep ourselves unspotted, but the Spirit that<br />
was in Christ, that looked upon His body as<br />
prepared <strong>by</strong> God for His service ; that looks<br />
upon our body as prepared <strong>by</strong> Him too, that<br />
we might offer it to Him. Like Christ, we too<br />
have a body, in which the Holy Spirit dwells.<br />
Like Christ, we too must yield our body, with<br />
every member, every power, every action, to<br />
fulfil His will, to be offered up to Him, to<br />
glorify Him.<br />
Like Christ, we must prove in our<br />
body that we are holy to the Lord.<br />
The blood that is sprinkled on thy heart<br />
came from the body of Jesus, prepared <strong>by</strong> God,<br />
and, in His whole life,<br />
even to His one offering,<br />
given up to God. The object of that blood<br />
sprinkling is that<br />
thy body, of which the heart<br />
sprinkled with the blood is the life,<br />
His, be wholly given up to<br />
all<br />
should, like<br />
God, should be in<br />
thy walk a body washed with pure water.<br />
Oh, seek to take in this blessed truth, and to<br />
accept it fully. The heart sprinkled with the<br />
blood points to the divine side of redemption,<br />
the body washed with pure water, to the human<br />
side. <strong>Let</strong> faith in the divine cleansing and