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The Counselor: Giving Inspired Advice, August 9
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with
many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the
love which I have more abundantly unto you.
2 Corinthians 2:4
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When I went to Colorado I was so burdened for you that, in my weakness,
I wrote many pages to be read at your camp meeting. Weak and trembling,
I arose at three o’clock in the morning to write to you. God was speaking
through clay. You might say that this communication was only a letter.
Yes, it was a letter, but prompted by the Spirit of God, to bring before your
minds things that had been shown me. In these letters which I write, in the
testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented
to me. I do not write one article in the paper, expressing merely my own
ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision—the precious rays
of light shining from the throne....
What voice will you acknowledge as the voice of God? What power has
the Lord in reserve to correct your errors and show you your course as it
is? What power to work in the church? If you refuse to believe until every
shadow of uncertainty and every possibility of doubt is removed, you will
never believe. The doubt that demands perfect knowledge will never yield to
faith. Faith rests upon evidence, not demonstration. The Lord requires us to
obey the voice of duty, when there are other voices all around us urging us to
pursue an opposite course. It requires earnest attention from us to distinguish
the voice which speaks from God. We must resist and conquer inclination,
and obey the voice of conscience without parleying or compromise, lest its
promptings cease, and will and impulse control.
The word of the Lord comes to us all who have not resisted His Spirit
by determining not to hear and obey. This voice is heard in warnings, in
counsels, in reproof. It is the Lord’s message of light to His people. If we
wait for louder calls or better opportunities, the light may be withdrawn, and
we left in darkness.—
Selected Messages 1:27, 28
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