Our eternal life may also be jeopardized if we embrace things that Jesus asks us to renounce. When Jesus calls us to surrender something, it is more than a test for eternal life! This surrendering will bless us even in this life! Ellen G. White says that “Jesus does not require of man any real sacrifice; for whatever we are asked to surrender is only that which we are better off without.”—Ellen G. White, Counsels on Stewardship, p. 300.
