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DIVINE GUIDANCE

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 18, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 31.

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DIVINE GUIDANCE.

By John Nevins Andrews

THOSE who have any sense of the danger by which the people of God are surrounded, will appreciate in a corresponding measure the value of divine direction and guidance. There are a thousand ways to death; but there is only one path of life. In all our matters, that have any moral bearing, whether great or small, we want the directing hand of our God. Now he has promised that he will guide the meek in judgment. Who are the persons thus designated? Are they not those who have submitted their will and ways unreservedly to God?
How are they to be guided? The statement is, that that they shall be guided in judgment. The meaning evidently is not that the judgment shall be superseded and treated as a thing of nought by the Spirit of God, but that that Heavenly Guide shall enlighten and instruct the judgment, and give to the meek Christian just views of duty and of the will of God concerning himself. If we may thus have our judgment sanctified by the Spirit of God, is it not of inestimable value to us to secure it? But let all remember this, that if our hearts are stubborn and our wills unrestrained we have not the slightest ground to believe that our judgments are thus enlightened by the Spirit of God.
J. N. A.