My dear friend,

There are two parts to God.  On the one hand there is God’s justice, truth and righteousness.  He is a pure God with a pure law, and we are expected to keep His law.  On the other hand, He is a merciful loving God who proved His love by His works when He lived a sinless life and then died in our place on that cruel cross.  But how can a merciful God expect us to keep a law which is impossible for us to keep through our own power?  Just as God takes away our sins and puts them far from us, so through His strength we can have power to keep His law of love.  “It is the mingling of judgment and mercy that makes salvation full and complete.” {E.G. White, 6BC 1071.12}

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