Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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LE T US DRA W NIGH 7
rather, it is eminently, a life of faith, not looking
to ourselves, but to God, and hoping in Him.
Faith will still be tried, will perhaps most be
tried, when God wants most to bless. Hope is
the daughter of faith, the messenger it sends
out to see what is to come : it is hope that
becomes the strength and support of faith.
Here, in the Holiest, let us above all hold fast
our confidence and the glorying of our hope
firm unto the end. Let us rejoice in hope of
the glory of God, as it will most surely be
revealed in our souls.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope.
Men always speak out of the abundance of the
heart of that which they hope for. We, too,
must confess and give expression to our hope.
The confession strengthens the hope ; what we
utter becomes clearer and more real to us. It
glorifies God. It helps and encourages those
around us. It makes God, and men, and ourselves,
see that we are committed to it. Let
us hold fast the confession of our hope, that it
waver not. Let the better hope by which we
draw nigh to God, by which we enter within
the veil, be the one tiling we hold fast and
confess with a confidence that never wavers.
Let the blessed hope of being kept day by day
in God's lo\e, the hope of a continual abiding