4. The Holy Spirit guides us--
(a) By opening up to our minds the deep, sanctifying truths of
the Bible, and especially by revealing to us the character and
spirit of Jesus and His Apostles, and leading us to follow in
their footsteps--the footsteps of their faith and love and
unselfish devotion to God and man, even unto the laying down of
their lives.
(b) By the circumstances and surroundings of our daily life.
(c) By the counsel of others, especially of devout, and wise, and
experienced men and women of God.
(d) By deep inward conviction, which increases as we wait
upon Him in prayer and readiness to obey. It is by this sovereign
conviction that men are called to preach, to go to foreign fields
as missionaries, to devote their time, talents, money, and lives
to God's work for the bodies and souls of men.
5. Why do people seek for guidance and not find it?
(a) Because they do not diligently study God's word, and
seek to be filled with its truths and principles. They neglect
the cultivation of their minds and hearts in the school of
Christ, and so miss Divine guidance. One of the mightiest men of
God now living used to carry his Bible with him into the coal
mine when only a boy, and spent his spare time filling his mind
and heart with its heavenly truths, and so prepared himself to be
divinely led in mighty labours for God.
(b) They do not humbly accept the daily providences, the
circumstances, and conditions of their everyday life as a part of
God's present plan for them; as His school in which He would
train them for greater things; as His vineyard in which He would
have them diligently labour.
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