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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

words, having accepted God’s general orders, we are to wait pa tiently to receive His specific orders in order to avoid a way of our own choosing. This is the key to success outlined here. On the other hand, if we walk in a path of our own choosing, irrespective of whether we imagine we are working for God’s cause or not, we will surely stumble. These formulae are accord ing to law. Every person on earth is following one or other for mula in any given situation. Some people have learned from God enough to follow the correct procedures in some instances, al though they may still cling to incorrect procedures in others. As a result their lives are a mixture of success and failure. It behooves all of us to ensure that we learn God’s ways, as certain the path He has marked out, and walk in that path. If this is faithfully done, trusting in Him alone to guide us, success will be ours. This is a powerful assurance that if we do God’s will, we can not stumble or fall. Many possess a commendable desire to do God’s will, but very few understand how to do it. People often ap point themselves a work for God and then believe that, because they appear to be doing the good works God calls for, they are carrying out His will. For example, it is generally thought that engaging in missionary or church work according to our human understanding is automatically doing God’s will. The ancient Is raelites thought so too, when they set about making their own specific plans for the execution of God’s general orders. What fearful loss was the result! In our hearts, none of us desires to spend our lives doing what we imagine is God’s will, only to find that we have been mistak en. A number of us will be finally told that the Lord never knew us, that our works will never be accepted, and that no place has been given us in the kingdom. That precisely this will be the por tion of some is verified in Matthew : “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’” Matthew 7:21–23.