Sound the Note of Alarm

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for August 19
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Sound the Note of Alarm

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Prov.
3:6. 


In all our ways we should acknowledge God, and He will direct our paths.
We should consult His Word with humble hearts, ask His counsel, and give
up our will to His. We can do nothing without God. 

There is the highest reason for us to prize the true Sabbath and stand
in its defense, for it is the sign which distinguishes the people of God
from the world. The commandment that the world makes void is the one to
which, for this very reason, God's people will give greater honor. It is
when the unbelieving cast contempt upon the Word of God that the
faithful Calebs are called for. It is then that they will stand firm at
the post of duty, without parade, and without swerving because of
reproach. The unbelieving spies stood ready to destroy Caleb. He saw the
stones in the hands of those who had brought a false report, but this
did not deter him; he had a message, and he would bear it. The same
spirit will be manifested today by those who are true to God. 

The psalmist says, "They have made void thy law. Therefore I love thy
commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold" (Ps. 119:126, 127). When
men press close to the side of Jesus, when Christ is abiding in their
hearts by faith, their love for the commandments of God grows stronger
in proportion to the contempt which the world heaps upon His holy
precepts. It is at this time that the true Sabbath must be brought
before the people by both pen and voice. As the fourth commandment and
those who observe it are ignored and despised, the faithful feel that it
is the time not to hide their faith but to exalt the law of Jehovah by
unfurling the banner on which is inscribed the message of the third
angel, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. 

Let not those who have the truth as it is in Jesus give sanction, even
by their silence, to the work of the mystery of iniquity. Let them never
cease to sound the note of alarm. . . . The truth must not be hid, it
must not be denied or disguised, but fully avowed, and boldly
proclaimed.

>From Maranatha - Page 239.