Devotional Snippet :WHILE IT IS DAY AND OPPORTUNITY AVAILS ITSELF

Testimonies for the Church,Volume 1

 

Chapter 54—Great Distress Coming

"I saw greater distress in the land than we have yet witnessed. I

heard groans and cries of distress, and saw large companies in active

battle. I heard the booming of the cannon, the clash of arms, the

hand-to-hand fight, and the groans and prayers of the dying. The

ground was covered with the wounded and the dead. I saw desolate,

despairing families, and pinching want in many dwellings. Even now

many families are suffering want, but this will increase. The faces of

many looked haggard, pale, and pinched with hunger."-p252

Isn't this evident in these last days-with all these protests etc?

"I was shown that the people of God should be closely united in

the bonds of Christian fellowship and love. God alone can be our

shield and strength in this time of our national calamities. The people

of God should awake. Their opportunities to spread the truth should

be improved, for they will not last long. I was shown distress and

perplexity and famine in the land. Satan is now seeking to hold God’s

people in a state of inactivity, to keep them from acting their part in

spreading the truth, that they may at last be weighed in the balance

and found wanting."-1T,p252

"God’s people must take warning and discern the signs of the times.

The signs of Christ’s coming are too plain to be doubted, and in view

of these things everyone who professes the truth should be a living

preacher. God calls upon all, both preachers and people, to awake. All

heaven is astir. The scenes of earth’s history are fast closing. We are

amid the perils of the last days. Greater perils are before us, and yet

we are not awake. This lack of activity and earnestness in the cause

of God is dreadful. This death stupor is from Satan. He controls the

minds of unconsecrated Sabbathkeepers, and leads them to be jealous

of one another, faultfinding, and censorious. It is his special work to

divide hearts that the influence, strength, and labor of God’s servants

may be kept among unconsecrated Sabbathkeepers and their precious

time be occupied in settling little differences when it should be spent

in proclaiming the truth to unbelievers."-p.252,253

“I was shown God’s people waiting for some change to take place—

a compelling power to take hold of them. But they will be disap-

pointed, for they are wrong. They must act, they must take hold of

the work themselves and earnestly cry to God for a true knowledge of

themselves. The scenes which are passing before us are of sufficient

magnitude to cause us to arouse and urge the truth home to the hearts

of all who will listen. The harvest of the earth is nearly ripe.”

-p253

"Men can hear and acknowledge the whole truth, and yet know

nothing of the power of godliness. All who preach the truth will not

themselves be saved by it. Said the angel: “Be ye clean, that bear the

vessels of the Lord.”-p.254

"There is no help for us but in God; in this state of earth’s

confusion we can be composed, strong, or safe, only in the strength

of living faith; nor can we be at peace, only as we rest in God and

wait for His salvation. Greater light shines upon us than shone upon

our fathers. We cannot be accepted or honored of God in rendering

the same service, or doing the same works, that our fathers did. In

order to be accepted and blessed of God as they were, we must imi-

tate their faithfulness and zeal,—improve our light as they improved

theirs,—and do as they would have done had they lived in our day. We

must walk in the light which shines upon us, otherwise that light will

become darkness. God requires of us to exhibit to the world, in our

character and works, that measure of the spirit of union and oneness

which is in accordance with the sacred truths we profess and with the

spirit of those prophecies that are fulfilling in these last days. The truth

which has reached our understanding, and the light which has shone

on the soul, will judge and condemn us, if we turn away and refuse to

be led by them."-p254

"What shall I say to arouse the remnant people of God? I was shown

that dreadful scenes are before us; Satan and his angels are bringing all

their powers to bear upon God’s people. He knows that if they sleep a

little longer he is sure of them, for their destruction is certain."-p.254

 

"I warn

all who profess the name of Christ to closely examine themselves and

make full and thorough confession of all their wrongs, that they may

go beforehand to judgment, and that the recording angel may write

pardon opposite their names. My brother, my sister, if these precious

moments of mercy are not improved, you will be left without excuse.

If you make no special effort to arouse, if you will not manifest zeal

in repenting, these golden moments will soon pass, and you will be

weighed in the balance and found wanting."-p.254

Honestly,I am challenged!