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Appeal and Warning
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work, as to what we shall do or shall not do. We must obey the
orders that come from above. We are not to hear the counsel or
follow the plans suggested by unbelievers. Suggestions made by
those who know not the work that God is doing for this time will
be such as to weaken the power of the instrumentalities of God. By
accepting such suggestions, the counsel of Christ is set at nought....
The eye of the Lord is upon all the work, all the plans, all the
imaginings of every mind; He sees beneath the surface of things,
discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart. There is not a deed
of darkness, not a plan, not an imagination of the heart, not a thought
of the mind, but that He reads it as an open book. Every act, every
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word, every motive, is faithfully chronicled in the records by the
great Heart Searcher who said, “I know thy works.”
I was shown that the follies of Israel in the days of Samuel will
be repeated among the people of God today unless there is greater
humility, less confidence in self, and more trust in the Lord God of
Israel, the Ruler of the people. It is only as divine power is combined
with human effort that the work will abide the test. When men lean
no longer on men or on their own judgment, but make God their
trust, it will be made manifest in every instance by meekness of
spirit, by less talking and much more praying, by the exercise of
caution in their plans and movements. Such men will reveal the fact
that their dependence is in God, that they have the mind of Christ.
Trusting in Men
Again and again I have been shown that the people of God in
these last days could not be safe in trusting in men, and making flesh
their arm. The mighty cleaver of truth has taken them out of the
world as rough stones that are to be hewed and squared and polished
for the heavenly building. They must be hewed by the prophets
with reproof, warning, admonition, and advice, that they may be
fashioned after the divine Pattern; this is the specified work of the
Comforter, to transform heart and character, that men may keep the
way of the Lord....
Since 1845 the dangers of the people of God have from time to
time been laid open before me, and I have been shown the perils that
would thicken about the remnant in the last days. These perils have