Sometimes your fears have been aroused, but still you have never realized your wretched spiritual condition and absolute danger. You have repeatedly fallen back again into the same state of indifference and selfishness. Your repentance has never gone deep enough to perfect a thorough reformation. You have had a surface work, but not that entire transformation which is necessary in order to bring you into acceptance with God. “He that followeth Me,” says Christ, “shall not walk in darkness.” But through the greater part of your professed Christian life you have walked in darkness because you have failed to connect with heaven and receive the pure light of God’s Spirit. {4T 189.2}

Nogle gange er din frygt opvakt, men stadig erkender du ikke din ulykkelige åndelige tilstand og absolutte fare. Du har gentagende gange faldet tilbage i den samme ligegyldighedstilstand og selviskhed. Din anger er aldrig blevet dyb nok til at fuldkomme den fuldstændige reformation. Du har haft et overfladisk arbejde, men ikke den fuldstændige forvandling (190) der er nødvendig for at blive godkendt hos Gud. »Den, som følger mig,« siger Kristus, »skal aldrig vandre i mørket, men have livets lys.« Men i det meste af dit kristendomsbekendende liv, har du vandret i mørke fordi du ikke har taget forbindelsen med himmelen og modtaget Guds Ånds rene lys.