Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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64 LET US DRA W NIGH
simplest way possible, once again, by the grace
of God, to throw open the door, and to help
each honest-hearted child of God to enter in,
and take his place for life, in the home the
Father has prepared for him.
And first of all I would say : Believe that a
life in the Holiest of All, a life of continual
abiding in God's presence, is
most certainly your
duty and within your power. As long as this
appears a vague uncertainty, the study of our
Epistle must be in vain. Its whole teaching
has been to prove that the wonderful priesthood
of Christ, in which He does everything in the
power of an endless life, and is therefore able
to save completely ; that His having opened a
way through the rent veil into the Holiest, and
entered in with His blood ; that His sitting on
the throne in heavenly power, as Minister of
the sanctuary and Mediator of the covenant;
that all this means nothing if it does not
mean the Holiest is open for us. We may,
we must, and we can live there. What is
the meaning of this summing up of all,
Wherefore, brethren, having boldness to enterlet
ns draw near, if a real entrance into and
abode in the Holiest is not for us ? No, beloved
Christian, do believe, it can be. Say : God
really means me to enter and dwell, and spend