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This post is based on a October 2010 General Conference talk called "Because of Your Faith" by Jeffrey R. Holland. I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk. Before sharing the highlights, I encourage you to think about and answer the following question; "What does because of your faith means to you?"
Elder Holland mentions, "In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.
Contrary to the parlance of the day, this is about you. No, don’t turn and look at your neighbor. I am talking to you! I have struggled to find an adequate way to tell you how loved of God you are and how grateful we on this stand are for you. I am trying to be voice for the very angels of heaven in thanking you for every good thing you have ever done, for every kind word you have ever said, for every sacrifice you have ever made in extending to someone to anyone the beauty and blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Too often I have failed to express gratitude for the faith and goodness of such people in my life. President James E. Faust stood at this pulpit 13 years ago and said, “As a small boy …, I remember my grandmother … cooking our delicious meals on a hot woodstove. When the wood box next to the stove became empty, Grandmother would silently … go out to refill it from the pile of cedar wood outside, and bring the heavily laden box back into the house. I was so insensitive … [that] I sat there and let my beloved grandmother refill [that] box.” Then, his voice choking with emotion, he said, “I feel ashamed of myself and have regretted my omission for all of my life. I hope someday to ask for her forgiveness.”
To you, Mom and Dad, and to all the moms and dads and families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your children (and for other people’s children!), for wanting so much to give them advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life you could provide.
My thanks to all you wonderful members of the Church and legions of good people not of our faith for proving every day of your life that the pure love of Christ “never faileth.”
No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
As Jesus said to the Nephites, so say I today: “Because of your faith …, my joy is full. And when he had said these words, he wept.”
Brothers and sisters, seeing your example, I pledge anew my determination to be better, to be more faithful more kind and devoted, more charitable and true as our Father in Heaven is and as so many of you already are. This I pray in the name of our Great Exemplar in all things even the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen."
I strongly encourage you to read the whole talk in your own time. Here is the link to the talk. www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/because-of-your-faith
That is all from me for now, I should be posting again sometime tomorrow at Pacific Daylight time zone.
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This post is based on a October 2010 General Conference talk called "Because of Your Faith" by Jeffrey R. Holland. I would like to share with you some highlights while I was reading the talk. Before sharing the highlights, I encourage you to think about and answer the following question; "What does because of your faith means to you?"
Elder Holland mentions, "In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.
Contrary to the parlance of the day, this is about you. No, don’t turn and look at your neighbor. I am talking to you! I have struggled to find an adequate way to tell you how loved of God you are and how grateful we on this stand are for you. I am trying to be voice for the very angels of heaven in thanking you for every good thing you have ever done, for every kind word you have ever said, for every sacrifice you have ever made in extending to someone to anyone the beauty and blessings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
To you, Mom and Dad, and to all the moms and dads and families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your children (and for other people’s children!), for wanting so much to give them advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life you could provide.
My thanks to all you wonderful members of the Church and legions of good people not of our faith for proving every day of your life that the pure love of Christ “never faileth.”
No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
As Jesus said to the Nephites, so say I today: “Because of your faith …, my joy is full. And when he had said these words, he wept.”
Brothers and sisters, seeing your example, I pledge anew my determination to be better, to be more faithful more kind and devoted, more charitable and true as our Father in Heaven is and as so many of you already are. This I pray in the name of our Great Exemplar in all things even the name of the Lord Jesus Christ amen."
I strongly encourage you to read the whole talk in your own time. Here is the link to the talk. www.lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/because-of-your-faith
That is all from me for now, I should be posting again sometime tomorrow at Pacific Daylight time zone.
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