Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

66 LET US DRA W NIGH
hopelessly struggled. The surrender of all
becomes only possible when the soul sees how
truly and entirely Jesus, the Mediator of the
new covenant, has undertaken for all, and
engages to put His own delight in God's law
into the heart, to give
the will and the strength
to live in all God's will. That faith gives the
courage to place oneself before Christ and to say
—Lord, here am I, ready to be led by Thee in
the new and living way of death to my will,
and a life in God's will alone : I give up all to
Thee.
Then comes, accompanying this surrender,
the faith that Jesus does now accept and undertake
for all. The more general faith in His
power, which led to the surrender, becomes a
personal appropriation. I know that I cannot
lift or force myself into the Holiest. I trust
Jesus, as my almighty and ever-living
Priest on
the throne, even now, at this moment, to take
me in within the veil, to take charge of me
there, and enable me to walk up and down before
the face of the living God, and serve Him.
However high and impossible such a life appears,
I cannot doubt but that He who with His blood
opened the Holiest for me will take me in;
and that He who sits on the throne as my great
High Priest is able and faithful to keep me in