The Church: Its Organization, Order and Discipline

Respect God’s Plan

“Let man now cease to trust in man. While they should respect God’s plan for unity of action [this plan relates to system of order and organization which the Testimony said God had led in establishing, and which is to stand, strengthened and established.-J. N. L.] Let all remember that the Holy Spirit is molding and fashioning the human agent in the divine similitude. The life that is hid with Christ in God is revealed through me.... The eye should not be so constantly looking to men, studying the plans which men devise; but rather seeking for a knowledge of the plans which are determined by the Source of all wisdom. Then there will be no danger of having plans for the work contaminated by flowing through impure human channels. Look to God; pray to God; wait and watch and pray to God; work for God.... The weak must not now trust in finite men if they would be as David, and David as the angel of the Lord.” COOD 154.3