One Thing Impossible
With God
By Mrs. E. G. White
The work of all believers is
to sow the world with truth. Talk the truth, pray the truth, believe the
truth, and communicate the truth. Scatter everywhere in abundance the
incorruptible seed of truth. The world's Redeemer holds in His hand the
key to unlock the treasure house of wisdom. He that lacketh wisdom, "let
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and
tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of
the Lord" (James 1:5-7).
We have precious golden hours
wherein we can cultivate faith and perfect a Christian character. We need
to watch and pray. Be sober and watch unto prayer. We have an inexhaustible
storehouse, an ocean of love, in the God of our salvation. He has placed
in the hands of Christ all the treasures of the heavenly resources and
says, "All these are for man in order to convince fallen, sinful
man of My love, that there is no love in the universe but Mine, and for
his happiness I am working and will work." The happiness of man is
to know God and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent.
It was to make this vast treasure
house of all good available that the Word became flesh and dwelt among
us. He sprinkled every gift with His own blood, making it one by this
act. The richest gift, the most costly sacrifice, was selected by God
to come to the world as His expression of the love of God to man. The
gift of God to our world in sending Jesus is an exhibition of His grace
which God Himself cannot surpass. While we live in this world, there will
be new developments and the extensive glory of the great love He had for
the souls He has created even in this world. But that love will be extending
and expanding before the saints in light, and in characters of new and
increasing interest, seen and joyously realized throughout eternity.
But one thing is impossible
with God--the power of eclipsing the greatness of His gift, in showing
His love for fallen man that He has given in Jesus. In this wonderful
expression of His love He has given to man fallen, and to all the unfallen
worlds, and to the universe of heaven [clear evidence] that there is no
love but His love.
The Lord has paid this infinite
price in giving His only begotten Son that through belief in Jesus Christ
is belief in God, and that the righteous laws, the ten precepts of His
decalogue, may appear to the world, even to as many as will believe on
Jesus Christ, as His just requirements and are ever to be maintained.
Had God the Father come to
our world and dwelt among us, veiling His glory and humbling Himself,
that humanity might look upon Him, the history that we have of the life
of Christ would not have been changed in unfolding its record of His own
condescending grace. In every act of Jesus, in every lesson of His instruction,
we are to see and hear and recognize God. In sight, in hearing, in effect,
it is the voice and movements of the Father. But language seems to be
so feeble! I refrain, and with John exclaim, "Behold, what manner
of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not"
(1 John 3:10).
From a letter
written by Ellen White to her son, Edson,
November 18, 1895.
Printed in Manuscript Releases, vol. 21, pp. 392, 393.
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