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S.D.A. Bible Commentary Vol. 5
Let us apply this Word to our individual selves, comparing scripture
with scripture.
In our daily lives, before our brethren and before the world, we
are to be living interpreters of the Scriptures, doing honor to Christ
by revealing His meekness and His lowliness of heart. Christ’s
teachings are to be to us as the leaves of the tree of life. As we eat
and digest the bread of life, we shall reveal a symmetrical character.
By our unity, by esteeming others better than ourselves, we are to
bear to the world a living testimony of the power of the truth....
When men submit entirely to God, eating the bread of life and
drinking the water of salvation, they will grow up into Christ. Their
characters are composed of that which the mind eats and drinks.
Through the Word of life, which they receive and obey, they become
partakers of the divine nature. Then their entire service is after the
divine similitude, and Christ, not man, is exalted (
Letter 64, 1900
).
53-57, 63. Eating of the Tree of Life
—“Whoso eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood,” says Christ, “hath eternal life; and I will
raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my
blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my
blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent
me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live
by me.... It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
This is eating the fruit of the tree of life (
Manuscript 112, 1898
).
63
. See
EGW comment on Genesis 3:24
.