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To Brethren in Responsible Positions
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The Work Not Circumscribed by the Counsel of God
Oh, that the Lord might guide you! You should never in a single
instance allow hearsay to move you to action, and yet you have
sometimes done this. Never take action to narrow and circumscribe
the work unless you know that you are moved to do so by the Spirit
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of the Lord. Our people are doing work for foreign missions, but
there are home missions that need their help just as much as these
foreign missions. We should make efforts to show our people the
wants of the cause of God, and to open before them the need of
using means that God has entrusted to them to advance the work
of the Master both at home and abroad. Unless those who can help
in-----are aroused to a sense of their duty, they will not recognize
the work of God when the loud cry of the third angel shall be heard.
When light goes forth to lighten the earth, instead of coming up to
the help of the Lord, they will want to bind about His work to meet
their narrow ideas. Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this
last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things,
and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. There
will be those among us who will always want to control the work of
God, to dictate even what movements shall be made when the work
goes forward under the direction of the angel who joins the third
angel in the message to be given to the world. God will use ways
and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His
own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that
He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness.
Those who are accounted good workers will need to draw nigh to
God, they will need the divine touch. They will need to drink more
deeply and continuously at the fountain of living water, in order that
they may discern God’s work at every point. Workers may make
mistakes, but you should give them a chance to correct their errors,
give them an opportunity to learn caution, by leaving the work in
their hands.
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Use of Individual Judgment
[Special Testimonies, Series A 6:61-65 (1896).]
Orebro, Sweden,