Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence
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78 LET US DRA W NIGH<br />
what power He has to cleanse from sin, to<br />
conquer evil, to restore to holiness and to goodness.<br />
<strong>Let</strong> us consider one another, in every<br />
possible way, to provoke, to stir up, to help to<br />
love and good works.<br />
The chief thought is this : Life in the Holiest<br />
must be a life of love. As earnest as the injunction,<br />
<strong>Let</strong> us draw nigh in fulness of faith,<br />
<strong>Let</strong> us hold fast the confession of our hope, is<br />
this,<br />
<strong>Let</strong> us consider one another to provoke unto<br />
love and good works. God is love. And all Ho<br />
has done for us in His Son, as revealed in this<br />
Epistle, is love. And Christ is love. And there<br />
can be no real access to God as a union with<br />
Him in His holy will, no real communion with<br />
Him, but in the Spirit of love. Our entering<br />
into the Holiest is mere imagination, if we do<br />
not yield ourselves to the love of God in Christ,<br />
to be filled and used for the welfare and joy of<br />
our fellow-men.<br />
Christian ! study what love is. Study it<br />
in the word, in Christ, in God. As thou seest<br />
Him to be an ever- flowing fountain of all goodness,<br />
who has His very being<br />
and glory in this,<br />
that He lives in all that exists, and communicates<br />
to all His own blessedness<br />
and perfection as far<br />
as they are capable of it, thou wilt learn to<br />
acknowledge that he that loveth not hath uu