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