The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly; but where do we behold the true advent spirit? Who are preparing to stand in that time of temptation which is just before us? The people to whom God has entrusted the sacred, solemn, testing truths for this time are sleeping at their post. They say by their actions: We have the truth; we are rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; while the True Witness declares: Thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. 5T 101 God brings His people near Him by close, testing trials, by showing them their own weakness and inability, and by teaching them to lean upon Him as their only help and safeguard. Then His object is accomplished. 4T 86 He is trying to cause us to lean on Him and not on our own because if we come to the time of Jacob’s trouble and we are still leaning on our own efforts and help it’s overwhelming. It’s impossible. So He is now trying to teach us to learn what it means to lean upon Him. They are prepared to be used in every emergency, to fill important positions of trust, …God’s work of refining and purifying must go on until His servants are so humbled, so dead to self, that, when called into active service, their eye will be single to His glory. 4T 86
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