"My Grace Is Sufficient for Thee"
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength
is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor. 12:9.
Through all my sickness the last eight months, [WRITTEN DURING ELLEN
WHITE'S LONG ILLNESS IN AUSTRALIA.] I have had during my sleepless hours the
most precious contemplations of the love of God to man, expressed in the
wonderful sacrifice made to save him from ruin. I loved to repeat the name
of Jesus; how full of sweetness, light, and love it is! Looking upon the
cross, at the humiliations and sufferings endured in bearing our sins, that
His righteousness might be imputed to us, softens the heart and fills the
soul with His love. . . .
When pain has seemed to be almost unbearable, I have looked to Jesus
and prayed most earnestly, and He has been beside me, and the darkness has
passed away and all has seemed light. The very air seemed like precious
fragrance. How glorious seemed the truth! How uplifting! I could rest in the
love of Jesus. Pain was still my portion, but the promise, "My grace is
sufficient for thee," was enough to give me comfort. The sharpest pains
seemed to be converted into peace and rest. For hours in the night season I
have had sweet communion with God. My mind seemed to be illuminated. I had
no disposition to murmur or complain.
Jesus was the spring of my hope and my joy and courage. Heaven has
seemed to be very near, and Christ the great Physician, my restorer, the
remedy of all sickness. In Him all fullness dwells. Jesus is music to my
ears, and although drinking the cup of suffering, the water of life was
presented to me to quench my thirst. Christ is our righteousness, our
sanctification, our redemption. Through these months of suffering I have had
such precious views of the goodness of Jesus that I want them never to
become dim. I believe now that my sickness in this strange country is a part
of God's plan. . . . How urgently my soul pleads for the heavenly endowment.
Of myself I can do nothing. The power and the glory is all of God.
>From That I May Know Him - Page 283
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