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Believing in His Guidance, April 15
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:
yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that
come to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the
hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
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Corinthians 2:5-7
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You are accepted in the Beloved. I have had the most earnest desire that
you should perfect a Christian character, not in your own strength, but in the
strength and in the virtue and righteousness of Christ. The donation of the
Holy Spirit was the greatest gift God could bestow upon finite man. This is
free to all and in this gift there could be no computation; this endowment
specially signalized the enthronement of the only begotten Son of God in
His mediatorial kingdom. In this, the gift of the Comforter, the Lord God of
heaven demonstrates to man the perfect reconciliation which He had effected
between Himself and men. “Which hope,” says the apostle, “we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within
the veil, whither the forerunner is for us entered” (
Hebrews 6:19, 20
).
Has not God said He would give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?
And is not this Spirit a real, true, actual Guide? Some men seem afraid to
take God at His word, as though it would be presumption in them. They pray
for the Lord to teach us and yet are afraid to credit the pledged word of God
and believe we have been taught of Him. So long as we come to our heavenly
Father humbly and with a spirit to be taught, willing and anxious to learn,
why should we doubt God’s fulfillment of His own promise? You must not
for a moment doubt Him and dishonor Him thereby.
When you have sought to know His will, your part in the operation with
God is to believe that you will be led and guided and blessed in the doing
of His will. We may mistrust ourselves lest we misinterpret His teachings,
but make even this a subject of prayer, and trust Him, still trust Him to the
uttermost, that His Holy Spirit will lead you to interpret aright His plans and
the working of His providence.—
Manuscript Releases 6:223, 224
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