Ellen White makes the topics of salvation and the love of Christ, who died for me, both simple and personal. When I open The Desire of Ages, He’s right there. He’s so real, so able to save.
When I read what Ellen White says about the topic of salvation,it’s like no other author. What she writes has to do with me personally. It’s my life she’s talking about—my feelings and experiences.
I recognize them. This is a salvation of experience, one I can touch, because it’s about Jesus. I know she knew Jesus personally.Whatever any other writer knew, it doesn’t compare with
this.
Other writers may have something important to say, they may try to share the right ideas, but in the pages of The Desire of Ages Ellen White is trying to share salvation through Jesus. And the best
thing is she makes me want it! I want it with all my heart.
In her writings she talks about salvation in the real world—my world. It’s not about only ideas. It’s not a beehive of rhetoric. The intellectual part has its place, but when I get up in the morning to face my day spiritually, what I want needs to be clear, vivid, and personal. I find that in her writings.
My strength to save myself is like “ropes of sand,” as she puts it. I know she’s right because I’ve felt those ropes crumble in my hands. What she describes I can touch, for it’s a theology of flesh and blood. It’s about Jesus!
By Ellen
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