Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

68 LET US DRA IV NIGH
life within the veil, in full surrender and in
simple faith, can count upon this most surely,
that, in the power of the eternal, the pentecostal
Spirit in the heart, faith will become experience,
and the joy unspeakable be its
Wherefore, brethren, let us draw near 1
abiding portion.
1. Having boldness to enter in is the summary of the
doctrinal teaching of the first half of the Epistle ; let us draw
nigh, the summary of the life and practice which the second
half expounds.
2. The faith that appropriates the blessing : Jesus now takes
me in and gives me my place and my life in the Father's presence;
is but a beginning. Faith must now count upon the Holy Spirit,
in His pentecostal power, bringing down the kingdom of heaven
to us, to make it a personal experience. Until this comes, faith
must in patience wait till it obtains the promise, in accordance
with the teaching we have :
" Cast not away therefore your
boldness. For ye have need of patience, that, having done the
m II of God, ye may receive the promise."