Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

from the Heaven-wrought picture to paintings of
art, traced by imperfect fingers, and almost fall
down and worship them. What is the reason of
this? It is because the enemy is almost constantly
seeking to divert the mind from God. When we
present God and the religion of Christ, will they
receive them? No, indeed. They cannot accept of
Christ. What! they make the sacrifice they would
have to make to receive Him? Not at all! But what
is required? Simply the heart's best and holiest
affections for Him who left the glory of the Father
and came down to die for a race of rebels. He left
His riches, His majesty, and His high command,
and took upon Himself our nature, that He might
make a way of escape—to do what? to humiliate
you? to degrade you? No, indeed. To make a way
of escape for you from hopeless misery, to elevate
you at last to His own right hand in His kingdom.
For this the great, the immense, sacrifice was
made. And who can realize this great sacrifice?
Who can appreciate it? None but those who
understand the mystery of godliness, who have
tasted the powers of the world to come, who have
drunk from the cup of salvation that has been
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