Testimony Treasures, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

By study, contemplation, and prayer God's people will be elevated above
common, earthly thoughts and feelings, and will be brought into harmony
with Christ and His great work of cleansing the sanctuary above from the
sins of the people. Their faith will go with Him into the sanctuary, and the
worshipers on earth will be carefully reviewing their lives and comparing
their characters with the great standard of righteousness. They will see their
own defects; they will also see that they must have the aid of the Spirit of
God if they would become qualified for the great and solemn work for this
time which is laid upon God's ambassadors.
Christ said: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His
blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth My flesh, and drinketh My
blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh
is meat indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He that eateth My flesh, and
drinketh My blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him. As the living Father hath
sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth Me, even he shall live by
Me." John 6:53-57. How many of those who are laboring in word and
doctrine are eating Christ's flesh and drinking His blood? How many can
comprehend this mystery? The Saviour Himself explains this matter: "It is
the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak
unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." Verse 63. The word of God must
be interwoven with the living character of those who believe it. The only
vital faith is that faith which receives and assimilates the truth till it is a part
of the being and the motive power of the life and action. Jesus is called the
Word of God. He accepted His Father's law, wrought out its principles in His
life, manifested its spirit, and showed its beneficent power in the heart. Says
John: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His
glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth." John 1:14. The followers of Christ must be partakers of His
experience. They must assimilate the word of God. They must be changed
into its likeness by the power of Christ and reflect the divine attributes. They
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