12/19/2021
We Are Erring Mortals; We Need Forgiveness Daily
Christ paid an infinite price to redeem us from ruin and despair, and with hearts filled with gratitude to God, we should manifest toward others the same love, tenderness, and forbearance that we would have Him exercise toward us as sinful, erring mortals. While we need grace and mercy every moment, and forgiveness daily, how unbecoming for us to be so ready to criticize, censure, and condemn our brethren who are of like passions with ourselves. The reproof given by our Redeemer condemns all this. Such conduct is the result of self-esteem and self-exaltation; persons strive for the supremacy and become envious and jealous, lest others shall come in and fill a higher place than they themselves occupy.
~ E.G. White, Manuscript 1, 1878
