Deportment and Standards
"We are living in a time when Satan is
working with all his power to discourage and defeat those who are
laboring in God’s service. But we must not fail nor be discouraged.
We must exercise greater faith in God. We must trust His living
word. Unless we have a firmer hold from above, we shall never be
able to cope with the powers of darkness that will be seen and felt
in every department of the work. Earth’s cisterns will often be
empty, its pools become dry; but in Christ there is a living spring
from which we may continually draw. However much we draw and give to
others, an abundance will remain. There is no danger of exhausting
the supply; for Christ is the inexhaustible wellspring of truth. The
ethics inculcated by the gospel acknowledge no standard but the
perfection of God’s mind, God’s will. All righteous attributes of
character dwell in God as a perfect, harmonious whole. Everyone who
receives Christ as his personal Saviour is privileged to possess
these attributes. This is the science of holiness." – {7T 276. 3-5}