Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

62 LET US DRAW NIGH
obedience to
the call for us to cleanse ourselves
be closely linked together. God's work and
The heart sprinkled
thy work will be truly one.
from the evil conscience will then become an
unbroken experience, and the blood of the
Lamb, the ever-living motive and power for a
life in the body, like Christ's, a sacrifice holy
and acceptable to God.
1. I am deeply persuaded that in the self-pleasing which we
allow in gratifying the claims of the body, we shall find one of
the most frequent causes of the gradual decline of our fellowship
with God. Do remember, it was through the body that Satan
conquered in Paradise ; it was in the body he tempted Christ and
had to be resisted. It was in suffering of the body, as when
He hungered, that Christ was perfected. It is only when the law
of self-denial is strictly applied to the body, that we can dwell
in the Holiest.
2. He was tempted in all points, like as we are— in His body
very specially, and is able to succour us. Let the committal of
our body into the keeping and the rule of Jesus be very definite
and entire.
3. "If Miranda was to run a race for her life, she would submit
to a diet that was proper for it. As the race which is set before
her is a race for holiness and heavenly affection, so her everyday
diet has only this one end — to make her body fitter for this
spiritual life."