GOD SEES THE HEART
Every way of a man is right in is own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts.--Proverbs 21:3
I saw that Satan was at work in these ways to distract, draw away, and deceive God's people just now in this sealing time. I saw some who were not standing stiffly, their knees were trembling, their feet were sliding because they were not planted on the present truth, and the covering of Almighty God could not be drawn over them while they were thus trembling. Satan was trying his every art to hold them where they were until the sealing was over, and the covering drawn over God's people, and they were left without protection in the time of slaughter. God has begun to draw the covering over His people; therefore it will very soon be drawn over all those who are to have a shelter in the day of the Lord.
I saw that as God worked in power for His people, Satan would also work, and that the mysterious knocking, and signs and wonders of Satan and false reformations would increase and spread. The reformations that were shown me were not reformations from error to truth; no, no; but from bad to worse, for those who professed a change of heart had only wrapped about them a religious garb which covered up the iniquity of a vile heart. Some appeared to have been really converted so as to deceive God's people. But if their hearts could be seen they would appear as black as ever. (Manuscript 1, March 24, 1849)
REFLECTION: Through Jesus we may open our hearts to God as to one who knows and loves us.
In the secret place of prayer, where no eye but God's can see, no ear but His can hear, we may pour out our hidden desires and longings to the Father on infinite pity, and in the hush and silence of the soul that voice which never fails to answer the cry of human need will speak to our hearts. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 84)
Every way of a man is right in is own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts.--Proverbs 21:3
I saw that Satan was at work in these ways to distract, draw away, and deceive God's people just now in this sealing time. I saw some who were not standing stiffly, their knees were trembling, their feet were sliding because they were not planted on the present truth, and the covering of Almighty God could not be drawn over them while they were thus trembling. Satan was trying his every art to hold them where they were until the sealing was over, and the covering drawn over God's people, and they were left without protection in the time of slaughter. God has begun to draw the covering over His people; therefore it will very soon be drawn over all those who are to have a shelter in the day of the Lord.
I saw that as God worked in power for His people, Satan would also work, and that the mysterious knocking, and signs and wonders of Satan and false reformations would increase and spread. The reformations that were shown me were not reformations from error to truth; no, no; but from bad to worse, for those who professed a change of heart had only wrapped about them a religious garb which covered up the iniquity of a vile heart. Some appeared to have been really converted so as to deceive God's people. But if their hearts could be seen they would appear as black as ever. (Manuscript 1, March 24, 1849)
REFLECTION: Through Jesus we may open our hearts to God as to one who knows and loves us.
In the secret place of prayer, where no eye but God's can see, no ear but His can hear, we may pour out our hidden desires and longings to the Father on infinite pity, and in the hush and silence of the soul that voice which never fails to answer the cry of human need will speak to our hearts. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 84)
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