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Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

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earing weighty resp<strong>on</strong>sibilities. Let not your<br />

thoughts become cheap or comm<strong>on</strong> or selfish, for<br />

want of the grace of Christ. Our preparati<strong>on</strong> for the<br />

home above must be wrought out in this life. The<br />

grace of Christ must be woven into every phase of<br />

the character.<br />

I am to say to all who claim to be c<strong>on</strong>verted,<br />

Are your hearts truly changed, and are you<br />

watching unto prayer, preserving a thoughtful,<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sistent course of acti<strong>on</strong>, that you may have not<br />

a semblance of religi<strong>on</strong>, but the precious, genuine<br />

article? Ministers and physicians, when you<br />

accepted Christ did you experience a deep sense of<br />

spiritual need? How much it means to you who are<br />

to be ministers of righteousness, to accept the<br />

heavenly gift of light and love and peace and joy in<br />

the Holy Spirit. You are to be imbued with such<br />

love for Christ that you will yield to Him your<br />

whole affecti<strong>on</strong>s, surrendering your life to Him<br />

who gave His life for you. Imbued with the love of<br />

Christ, you are to be c<strong>on</strong>strained to perform acts of<br />

unselfish service until such acts become your life<br />

practice. Daily growth into the life of Christ creates<br />

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