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The False Claim of Sufficiency

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 22, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 21.

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The False Claim of Sufficiency

A lecturer announces his subject thus: “Sufficiency: I Do Not Want! I Am Health, Happiness, Success.” When man arrogates to himself the essential attributes of God, he is on the high road to destruction. God alone is “I Am,” and in Him alone is sufficiency. Nor does it make man more sufficient to proclaim it. The ultimate will find him altogether deficient.