Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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