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Encouragement for the Erring, August 27
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto
you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we
have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the
truth: but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin.
1 John 1:5-7
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For half a century I have been the Lord’s messenger, and as long as my
life shall last I shall continue to bear the messages that God gives me for
His people. I take no glory to myself; in my youth the Lord made me His
messenger, to communicate to His people testimonies of encouragement,
warning, and reproof. For sixty years I have been in communication with
heavenly messengers, and I have been constantly learning in reference to
divine things, and in reference to the way in which God is constantly working
to bring souls from the error of their ways to the light in God’s light.
Many souls have been helped because they have believed that the messages
given me were sent in mercy to the erring. When I have seen those who needed
a different phase of Christian experience, I have told them so, for their present
and eternal good. And so long as the Lord spares my life, I will do my work
faithfully, whether or not men and women shall hear and receive and obey.
My work is clearly given me to do, and I shall receive grace in being obedient.
I love God. I love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and I feel an intense
interest in every soul who claims to be a child of God. I am determined to be
a faithful steward so long as the Lord shall spare my life. I will not fail nor
be discouraged....
I love the Lord; I love my Saviour, and my life is wholly in the hands
of God. As long as He sustains me, I shall bear a decided testimony.—
Manuscript Releases 5:152, 153
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