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

Lord with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength
while we are loving our appetites, our tastes, a
great deal better than we love the Lord. We are
daily lessening our strength to glorify God, when
He requires all our strength, all our mind. By our
wrong habits we are lessening our hold on life, and
yet professing to be Christ's followers, preparing
for the finishing touch of immortality.
My brother and sister, you have a work to do
which no one can do for you. Awake from your
lethargy, and Christ shall give you life. Change
your course of living, your eating, your drinking,
and your working. While you pursue the course
you have been following for years, you cannot
clearly discern sacred and eternal things. Your
sensibilities are blunted and your intellect
beclouded. You have not been growing in grace
and in the knowledge of the truth as was your
privilege. You have not been increasing in
spirituality, but growing more and more darkened.
You have made too much haste to acquire property,
and have been in danger of overreaching, looking
out for your own interest and not regarding the
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