Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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