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I'm the Prodigal Daughter (a song by Lights). (Edit: I'm half joking and half serious. Sorry. I sometimes forget people can't read tone on through a computer)
I was baptized into this church at age 15 and it's the only church I ever chose because it's the one that made the most sense to me and usually always made me feel the most loved and ready for Jesus to return. We are not perfect, but we don't claim to be perfect as humans. Ellen White was a prophet(ess) and she was not perfect. Just because she did not always practice what she preached does not make her a false prophet. It makes her HUMAN. Just as I am human and have not always practiced what I've preached. We are flawed and that is something that everyone is just going to have to accept. Everybody Breaks a Glass by Lights.
I remember at Camp Meeting in the Northern New England area, we were taught that we should be ready every day for Jesus to return and should not doubt our salvation if we love Him and have truly gone to Him as our Saviour.
All we need to do is say "Yes!" I'm ready for Jesus to return. A lot of us, at the time only children, felt we could be praying more, or studying more, or being a better friend.
The pastor leading the junior youth group eased my fears and taught me that day to not doubt salvation. If Jesus returns, we can have faith that we are already saved.
We should follow the law of love, of course, and do our best to follow the 10 commandments, but if we return to our own vomit, all we have to do is ask for forgiveness for all our sins out of a pure heart. I like what Ellen White wrote somewhere in Steps to Christ that we can pray for Jesus to create in us a clean heart every day. We do not have to use words to pray this. All we really need is to desire it from Him.
God bless, and remember that Saturday was the original Sabbath. Let's remember it in our minds as the truth, for the way that the Catholic church and other denominations carry on observing Sunday as the holy day is disrespectful to our Creator.
If you have to work on the Sabbath for survival, don't worry. Do it as your ministry. Be a friend to your co-workers and bosses, just as Jesus would. Just remember to take some time out on the Sabbath to spend time with the best friend of humanity: the Saviour. Or Savior, if you like that spelling better. Haha.
If anyone from the Seventh-Day Adventist church has ever hurt you or your family, in any way, do not use that as an excuse to despise it or be unforgiving. Remember this bible verse:
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
If you don't have the ability or strength to forgive someone or multiple people, do as I have said before: Ask God to give you the strength to forgive. He will help you. As he has always helped me.
Praise the Lord that I'm no longer agnostic or atheist in any way. He saved me from that life.
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