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Getting in Step, January 27
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in
the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 1:10
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Last night I seemed to be standing before a large number of people who
were not united. One would stand back while another desired to go forward.
They were not standing in unity one with another. I saw a heavenly being
appear before them, and heard him say: “Come into line! No one is fighting
a battle on his own charges. The Master of assemblies says, Come into line!”
After this, I did not go to sleep again. I wondered whether in this meeting
our brethren were coming into line. It is often very difficult for a large group
of workers to come into full harmony one with another; but every one is to
come into line, and fill his appointed place. May God help His servants to do
this, is my prayer.
Although some may have followed their own way for a time, it is possible
for them to return, and get into line. The Lord sees that it is not best for His
children to be allowed to do as they please, and refuse to unite with their
brethren who view matters somewhat differently from the way in which they
may view them.
There are some who do not readily respond to the invitation to forsake
their own way, and come into harmony with God’s way. They prefer to follow
a way of their own choosing. Those who wish to do so, have the privilege of
continuing to walk in their own unconsecrated way, but the end of that way is
sorrow and destruction.
The Lord has men of His appointment whom He will use in His work
so long as they allow themselves to be used in accordance with His good
pleasure. He can never use any one who is seeking to humble someone
else. Humble yourselves, brethren. When you do this, it is possible for holy
angels to communicate with you, and place you on vantage ground. Then
your experience, instead of being faulty, will be filled with happiness. Seek
to relate yourselves in harmony with God’s leadings, and then you will be
susceptible to the movings of His Holy Spirit.
The Lord is coming. The end of all things is at hand. There remains but
little time in which to develop character.—
Manuscript 47, January 27, 1910
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“Come Into Line.”
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