Trusting God
Trust God—Wait Patiently—Those who, standing in the fore-
front of the conflict, are impelled by the Holy Spirit to do a special
work, will frequently feel a reaction when the pressure is removed.
Despondency may shake the most heroic faith, and weaken the most
steadfast will. But God understands, and He still pities and loves. He
reads the motives and the purposes of the heart. To wait patiently,
to trust when everything looks dark, is the lesson that the leaders in
God’s work need to learn. Heaven will not fail them in their day of
adversity. Nothing is apparently more helpless, yet really more in-
vincible, than the soul that feels its nothingness, and relies wholly on
God.—
Prophets and Kings, 174, 175
.
Experienced, God-fearing, Proved Men—Positions have been
given to young, inexperienced men, which ought to have been given
to men who had an experience gained in the early history of the work.
Let positions of trust be given to experienced, God-fearing, proved
men, men who will bear the message of reproof sent by God.—
Letter
35, 1900
, p. 1 (February 13, 1900, to General Conference Committee).
Counsel to a General Conference President—Elder Olsen, of
necessity you have many burdens to bear; but do not gather burdens,
and become crushed under them. The Lord does not mean to press
weights on any one to crush out his life, and forever stop his bearing
any burdens. Our loving heavenly Father says to every one of His
workers, “Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”
Again comes the injunction, “Casting all your care upon Him; for He
careth for you.”
The Lord estimates every weight before He allows it to rest upon
the heart of those who are laborers together with Him. Jesus has borne
sorrows and burdens, and He knows just what they are. He has His eye
upon every laborer. “The Lord telleth the number of the stars,” and
yet “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. The
Lord invites you to roll your burden on Him for He carries you on His
heart.
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