On This Day of Joy and Gladness
That was the closing song for this afternoon's session of Conference. What a powerful day! I'll have so much to ponder and write about after this weekend, but this post is actually thoughts from yesterday.
This from the Kirtland Temple Dedicatory Prayer: "that thy work may be cut short in righteousness..." (D&C 109:59)
Cool! We can actually hasten the Lord's coming. So maybe this has been said a million times over by prophets and such, but I guess I never really digested it. That's pretty amazing. This lead me to think about the recent challenge from President Hinckley to have every member of the Church read the Book of Mormon again before the end of the year. What a way to raise the level of spirituality throughout the Church. Surely such activities as this help to cut short the time before the Lord returns in His glory. It's seems to Sunday-School-answer-ish, but I guess the way to hasten the Lord's coming is through prayer and scripture study and obedience to all God's commandments. If we could be so righteous as to rend the veil of unbelief from before us, we could all come, as did the brother of Jared, to cause that Jesus Christ would come to us. Wow! IF as a Church and as a people we would "lengthen our stride" so to speak, step up the perfecting of the Saints and missionary work, whoa, that would be cool. Still, we have no power over anyone but ourselves. So even if we can't encourage the entire would to hasten the Lord's coming (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try), we can still cut short the time in our lives that we are distant from Him. We can cause that He will be with us individually by our righteousness. He is bound when we do as He commands (D&C 82:10), and as we increase our spirituality, He will come to us. Let's all hasten the time when "On this earth He comes again to rule among the sons of men." (I Believe in Christ, Hymns #134)
This from the Kirtland Temple Dedicatory Prayer: "that thy work may be cut short in righteousness..." (D&C 109:59)
Cool! We can actually hasten the Lord's coming. So maybe this has been said a million times over by prophets and such, but I guess I never really digested it. That's pretty amazing. This lead me to think about the recent challenge from President Hinckley to have every member of the Church read the Book of Mormon again before the end of the year. What a way to raise the level of spirituality throughout the Church. Surely such activities as this help to cut short the time before the Lord returns in His glory. It's seems to Sunday-School-answer-ish, but I guess the way to hasten the Lord's coming is through prayer and scripture study and obedience to all God's commandments. If we could be so righteous as to rend the veil of unbelief from before us, we could all come, as did the brother of Jared, to cause that Jesus Christ would come to us. Wow! IF as a Church and as a people we would "lengthen our stride" so to speak, step up the perfecting of the Saints and missionary work, whoa, that would be cool. Still, we have no power over anyone but ourselves. So even if we can't encourage the entire would to hasten the Lord's coming (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try), we can still cut short the time in our lives that we are distant from Him. We can cause that He will be with us individually by our righteousness. He is bound when we do as He commands (D&C 82:10), and as we increase our spirituality, He will come to us. Let's all hasten the time when "On this earth He comes again to rule among the sons of men." (I Believe in Christ, Hymns #134)
posted by Chicken Dust at 9:55 PM
1 Comments:
Once again, the flag is at half-staff. I think for the entire month of September it was only flying freely once or twice, and October is looking to be the same. Come on everybody, let's hasten the Lord's coming. I'm sick and tired of this nation/world in mourning!
Post a Comment
<< Home