Claim the Exceeding Great and Precious Promises
by Elder Spencer J. Condie
“And God remembered Rachel.” After being with my dear friend Rachel last week for the blessing of her lovely Thomas, I realized that my Father in Heaven DOES love his children. His love was evident in the blessing. His love was evident in Rachel’s eyes as she looked upon her son with other people. His love was evident in her careful attention to capturing everything that was going on this important day so that Thomas could one day look back and know how important it was to his mother.
The scriptures are laden with promises so powerful that one need only find a few and grasp onto them. Such a person would never cease to have hope in this life if these promises were always remembered… Hmm, kinda sounds like the rod of iron.
I appreciated this promise that Elder Condie brought out: The Holy Ghost can be our constant companion when we garnish our thoughts with virtue.
The Holy Ghost isn’t just a nice thing to have I’m learning, but rather, it’s a NECESSARY piece of Heavenly Father’s plan for me. Without the Holy Ghost, I cannot know truth with any depth of significance. It’s also with the Holy Ghost that I will become purified as Christ is purified and thus be ready to enter into his rest once my earthly toils are through.
Friends’ Thoughts:
- Sachi: Elder Condie’s talk
Your remarques concerning the Holy Ghost reminded me of Parley P. Pratt famous and greate statement… :
“The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands and purifies all the natural passions and affections; and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity. It develops beauty of person, form and features. It tends to health, vigor, animation, and social feeling. It invigorates all the faculties of the physical and intellectual man. It strengthens, and gives tone to the nerves. In short, it is, as it were, marrow to the bone, joy to the heart, light to the eyes, music to the ears, and life to the whole being” (Key to the Science of Theology, 9th ed. [1965], 101).
We totally need the Holy Ghost to make it…