When the life of grace first begins in the soul, we do indeed draw near to God; but it is with fear and trembling. The soul, conscious of guilt and humbled thereby, is in awe over the solemnity of its position. It is cast to the earth by a sense of the grandeur of Jehovah, in whose presence it stands. But as the Christian grows in grace, his fear has all its terror taken out of it. He will never forget the solemnity of his position and will never lose that holy awe which must encompass a gracious man when he is in the presence of the God who can create or destory. It becomes a holy reverence and no more an overshadowing dread. He is called up higher, to greater access to God in Christ Jesus. Then the man of God, walking amid the splendors of deity and veiling his face, will approach the throne reverently and bowed in spirit. Seeing there a God of love, of goodness, and of mercy he will realized the character of God rather than His absolute deity. He will see in God His goodness rather than His greatness. While prostrate before the glory of the Infinite God, the soul will be sustained by the refreshing consciousness of being in the presence of boundless mercy and infinite love and by the realization of acceptance in the Beloved. Thus the believer is bidden to come up higher and is enabled to exercise the privilege of rejoicing in God and drawing near to Him in holy confidence, saying, "Abba, Father."