Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

without the trouble of climbing up step after step.
We are pained at heart as we compare the work
coming forth from their hands with God’s
righteous standard of faithfulness which God alone
can accept. There is a painful defect, a remissness,
a superficial gloss, a wanting in solidity and in
intelligent knowledge and carefulness and
thoroughness. God cannot say to such, “Well done,
thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been
faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler
over many things.” Matthew 25:21.
Men must get hold conscientiously and feel that
they are doing the work of God. They must have
the trust in their heart to correct all the sophistries
and delusions of Satan that would throw them off
the right track, so that they will not choose the way
of the Lord, but follow the impulses of their own
undisciplined characters. If the heart is sanctified
and guided by the Holy Spirit, they will run no
risks, but will be sure in all they undertake to do
good work for Jesus; and in doing their work
righteously they are standing securely in this life
with a fast hold from above, and they will be
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