Whenever we care to notice we find that God has given us sufficient witnesses of truth.
This talk deserves some real study/consideration. He has a lot of good truth about aligning ourselves to truth.
“What we do at home is the true crucible of…”
I want to look at the connections he illustrated between what we learn and practice at home and what we are able to apply outside the home.
When we respect and align what we do with … eternal realities, we experience internal peace and harmony. When we don’t, we are unsettled, and things do not work as we expect.
Day and night is one example of patterns that God has given to everyone who has ever lived on the earth, of things as they really are. It is an absolute truth of our human existence that we cannot negotiate around according to our own desires and get away with it. I am reminded of this every time I take a flight from Africa to come to general conference, resetting the body clock backward by 10 hours in one day.
Whenever we care to notice, we see that Heavenly Father has given us sufficient witnesses of truth to govern our lives so we will know Him and have the blessings of peace and joy.
The witnesses are apparent but is often up to us to acknowledge the connection between the evidence and the truth.
All new disciples are required to demonstrate humility before God through the ordinance of baptism. Thus, “all those who humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits … shall be received by baptism into his church.”
Humility inclines the heart of the disciple toward repentance and obedience. The Spirit of God is then able to bring truth to that heart, and it will find entry.
Lack of humility is exactly why it is impossible to make any progress with either Isaac or Enoch.
The miraculous irony of it is that when we focus our best efforts on loving God and others, we are enabled to discover our own true divine worth as sons and daughters of God, with the complete peace and joy that this experience brings.
Our opportunity to nurture in our souls a lasting love of God and of our neighbor starts at home with the holy habits of connecting with the Father daily in personal and family prayer in the name of His Only Begotten Son, learning together of Them through individual and family scripture study, observing the Sabbath day together, and individually holding a current temple recommend, using it together as often as we are able.
Personal and family prayer — weak at best. Individual and family scripture study — better but not perfect. Observing the Sabbath together — some of us. Holding and using a temple recommend — holding, but not using enough.
What we do at home is the true crucible of enduring and joyful discipleship.
Love for God and service to one another nurtured at home and service to others outside the home in time grow into the attribute of charity.
Service to one another has not been nurtured in our home. My service has been discounted and little other service exists.
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