[Manna - December 27]
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:21
WE are not to put our trust in leaders, but in the
Lord.
This does not signify that we are not to trust
leaders, and not to acknowledge leaders, for all the
history of the Lord's dealings with His people, the
typical as well as the antitypical, shows us that He
is pleased to use human agencies as His representatives
in the teaching and leading of His people from
grace to grace, from knowledge to knowledge.
The
lesson to be learned is that the Lord is thoroughly
competent to manage His own work, and that while
we may look for His leading through human agencies
our trust is not in them, their wisdom, their strength,
but in the Lord's wisdom and strength, guiding them
and us through them. Z. '02-284 R3078:5