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Allow God to Direct, November 21
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:6
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During the night season I was specially moved upon by the Spirit of God.
My soul had been drawn out in earnest supplication to God. I was distressed on
account of the backsliding of His people.
While lying in bed, unable to sleep because of the burden resting upon me,
I was pleading with the Lord. I fell asleep, and in the night season I was taught
of God. My guide said, “I have a work for you to do. You must speak the words
given you by the Lord. After these words have been spoken, your duty here is
done. You are not required to enter into details before individuals, whatever may
be their position or work, if they do not recognize the voice of God in the message
He gives you to bear in His name. All your efforts to remove their doubts will
be of no avail if they gather the clouds of darkness about their souls. If you enter
into particulars, you weaken the message. It is not you speaking, but the Lord
speaking through you. Those who want to know the will of God, who do not
desire to follow their own will and judgment, will be easily entreated. They will
be ready to discern the right way.
“The whys and wherefores are concealed from you; yet speak the words I give
you, however painful it may be to you. The ways in which God leads His people
are generally mysterious. You have asked to know God’s way. Your supplication
has been answered. God knows better than you do what is good and essential for
His children. He never leads them otherwise than they would wish to be led, if they
were able to see as clearly as He does what they must do to establish characters
that will fit them for the heavenly courts.”
The people whom God is leading must venture out upon His word. They must
walk forward by faith. Truths have been committed to them which they must obey.
The work of God is aggressive. No one can stand in a neutral position and yet be
a soldier in the Lord’s army. God has commands for His people, and if they keep
in close connection with Him, they will hear His voice, and will keep in step with
their Captain. They will go forward in the conflict to fight the battles of the Lord.
But those who place themselves in an indifferent, noncommittal position will gain
no victories.—
Manuscript 29, November 21, 1890
, “Diary,” vision dated Nov. 29,
1890.
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