Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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God's presence. Apart from any feeling or
experience of a change, I believe He takes me in,
and I say : Thank God, I am in the Holiest.
Let us draw near in fulness of faith.
And then follows, the life of faith in fit*
Holiest, holding fast my confidence and the
glorying of hope firm to the end. I believe
Jesus takes me in to the fulfilment and the
experience of all the new covenant blessings,
and makes me inherit all the promises. I look
to Him day by day to seal my faith with the
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven in my heart.
The disciples, when their Lord ascended the
throne, kept waiting, praising, praying, till the
Spirit came as the witness and the revealer
within their hearts of the glory of Jesus at the
right hand of God. It was on the day of
Pentecost that they truly entered within the
veil, to which the Forerunner had drawn their
longing hearts. They entered upon a state of
life in which they were dead to
and alive to God's will ;
their own will,
in which Christ dwelling
in their hearts by the Holy Spirit kept them in
the presence and love of God. In this state of
life we too can be kept. As sure as Christ
Jesus is wholly ours, each one of us is called to
live in the full enjoyment of the pentecostal
blessing. The soul that gives itself over to a