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The Truth About The White Lie

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    What motivated Ellen White to serve as God’s messenger? Was it wealth or fame?

    No. She lived a self-sacrificing life. While she supported herself and her work on the salary of a minister and from modest royalties on her writings, she did not consider her income to be her own. Whatever was not required for necessities, she put into the cause she served. At her death, she left no great estate. She even mortgaged the potential income from her literary productions in the sum of nearly one hundred thousand dollars to have means to publish her last books and advance the cause of God. Of her experience in finance, at one time she wrote: “The Lord saw that He could trust us with His means.... He kept pouring it in and we kept letting it out.” 1Manuscript 3, 1888.TAWL 13.13

    Was it notoriety or fame she sought? No. She found public life difficult. Burdened with the responsibility of presenting personal testimonies of warning and reproof, she declared at one time: “It has been hard for me to give the messages that God has given me for those I love.” 2Letter 59, 1895. At another point in her ministry she declared that if given the choice of another vision or the grave, she would choose the grave. She tasted the experience spoken of by the Master that “a prophet is not without honor, save in His own country” (Matthew 13:57).TAWL 14.1

    What then was her motivation? It was to follow the bidding of the Lord in serving as His messenger, regardless of costs or rewards, ever eager for the saving of souls to God’s kingdom. It was to hear at last the words, “Well done.”TAWL 14.2

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