Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

76 LET US DRAW NIGH
mayest hiow hoto thou ouglitest to behave thyself
in the house of God—remember this, Faith and
hope shall pass aicay, but love abideth ever. The
chief of these is love.
Let us consider one another.
TV hen first we
seek the entrance into the Holiest, ;';he thought
is mostly of ourselves. And whei we have
entered in in faith, it is. as if it is al 1 we can do
to stand before God, and wait on H'm for what
He has promised to do for us. Bt t it is not
long before we perceive that the Holi >st and the
Lamb are not for us alone ; that there are others
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within with whom it is blessed to h.* . re
fellowship
in praising God ; that there are seme without
who need our help to be brought in. It is
into the love of God that we have had access
given us ; that love enters our hearts ; and we
see ourselves called to live like Christ in entire
devotion to those around us.
Let us consider one another.
All the redeemed
form one body. Each one is dependent on the
other, each one is for the welfare of the other.
Let us beware of the self-deception that thinks
it possible to enter the Holiest, into the nearest
intercourse with God, in the spirit of selfishness.
It cannot be. The new and living way Jesus
opened up is the way of self-sacrificing love.
The entrance into the Holiest is given to us aa