![]() This brings up the questions: What is faith? While this may seem like a simple question, one only needs to ask it in a Mormon meeting to find that not everyone has the same understanding of what faith entails. In section one of the manual, President Benson deals with the idea that faith in God allows us to be successful in overcoming difficulties in life and creating a better future. Give me the gleams of sunshine amid these renewing storms and I will stand uncovered to receive the latter in all their fury without a word of protestation. But if my sorrows have been many my joys have been correspondingly keen, and there have been bright moments of joy and extacy such as few mortals encompass and if these bright drops of joy can be possessed only by drinking the draughts of ill between-then fill sorrow’s cup to the brim and I’ll drain it dry even to the dregs and never murmer. The flashes of light-heavenly light-have been startlingly bright, made to appear so to me, perhaps, by the thick blackness that has gathered about my horizon. ![]() This year for some unaccountable reason has been a yr of deep sorrow to me, and peculiar temptations. Truth is knowledge of things as they are-not as they are in wrong vision of them, but as they are in reality. Roberts: If we attend solely to observation and the summing up of evil alone, we are very apt to get a mis-vision of things. “The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride.” ī. “Life is like an old-time rail journey-delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. Most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration. “Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. I enjoy these words of Jenkins Lloyd Jones which I clipped from a column in the Deseret News some years ago. If you want to be happy in this life, you live the gospel. Sin never was happiness and never will be. By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others. Hinckley: In all of living have much fun and laughter. Arrington: The Looseness of Zion: Joseph Smith and the Lighter. If we are brought low with trials, then we can build sufficient faith and trust in God so he can lift us to a higher spiritual place. When we are brought low with trials or difficulties, we must remember that it takes that bending low to propel us higher. Point out to them that the only way to reach and jump high is to bend low first. (They won’t be able to jump very high.) Now, instruct them to jump again, but this time they can bend their knees as low as they want to before launching upward. Have the class stand up and ask them to jump as high as they can, but with the stipulation that they can’t bend their knees.The Lord needs to refine us so we can become like Him! These last days will be a purifying time for His Saints who will have the privilege of seeing Him return to the earth in glory. So how does the silversmith know when the silver is purified? It’s when he can see his image in it. He is with us and is always carefully watching. God may allow things to come into our lives to help purify us, but He will never leave us too long and let us be destroyed. He knows that if the silver is left even a moment too long in the flames, it will be destroyed. He sits in front of the fire and watches the silver carefully. Sometimes in life it may seem to us that God is holding us in a “hot spot.” When a silversmith does this, though, he never leaves. Malachi 3: 3 describes God as a refiner and purifier of silver. The silver must be held in the middle of the fire, where the flames are the hottest, to burn away all the impurities. Explain that silver has to be refined, and in order to do that, the silversmith holds a piece of silver over a fire and lets it heat up. ![]() Show the class a silver tray that is tarnished and ask if they know how silver is made.Two from the Ready Resource for Relief Society: ![]() Nelsen: Men’s Hearts Shall Fail Them (I highly recommend this one) The 2015 Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Ezra Taft Benson
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