Testimony Treasures, Volume 1 - Ellen G. White

to your appetites and passions, giving loose rein to lusts, to evil and
abominable desires. Instead of bearing in your countenance a calm serenity
under trial and affliction, like faithful Enoch, having your face radiant with
hope and that peace which passeth understanding, you will stamp your
countenance with carnal thoughts, with lustful desires. You will bear the
impress of the satanic instead of the divine.
"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that
by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust." 2 Peter 1:4. It is now your
privilege, by humble confession and sincere repentance, to take words and
return unto the Lord. The precious blood of Christ can cleanse you from all
impurity, remove all your defilement, and make you perfect in Him. The
mercies of Christ are still within your reach if you will accept them. For the
sake of your wronged wife, and your children, the fruit of your own body,
cease to do evil, and learn to do well. That which you sow, you shall also
reap. If you sow to the flesh you shall of the flesh reap corruption. If you sow
to the Spirit you shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
You must overcome your sensitiveness and faultfinding. You are jealous
that others do not give you all the attention you think you should have. The
experience founded in feeling, and savoring of fanaticism, you must not
adhere to. It is unsafe. Move from principle, from thorough understanding.
Search the Scriptures, and be able to give to every man that asketh you the
reasons of the hope which is in you, with meekness and fear. Let selfexaltation
die. "Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye
double-minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be
turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness." James 4:8, 9. When harassed
with temptations and evil thoughts, there is but One to whom you can flee
for relief and succor. Flee to Him in your weakness. When near Him, Satan's
arrows are broken and cannot harm you. Your trials and temptations borne in
God will purify and humble, but will not destroy or endanger you.
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