p. 251 | The Throne of Grace

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 22, 1878

The Throne of Grace.

If you want your spiritual life to be more healthy and vigorous, you must come more boldly to the throne of grace. The secret of your weakness is your little faith and little prayer. The fountain is unsealed; but you only sip a few drops. The bread of life is before you, yet you only eat a few crumbs. The treasury of heaven is open; but you only take a few pence. O man of little faith, wherefore do you doubt? Awake to know your privileges! awake, and sleep no longer! Tell me not of a spiritual hunger, and thirst, and poverty, so long as the throne of grace is before you. Say rather you are proud, and will not come to it as a poor sinner; say rather you are slothful, and will not take pains to get more. Cast aside the grave-clothes of pride that hang around you. Throw off that Egyptian garment of indolence, which ought not to have been brought through the Red Sea. Away with that unbelief which ties and paralyzes your tongue. You are not straightened in God, but in yourself. Come boldly, for you may, all sinful as you are, if you come in the name of the great High Priest.—Sel.