Kelley Barrow Miles shared a link.
Day 17: This is one of my favorite talks from one of our apostles. Don't live below your privileges!
"We live beneath our privileges when we fail to partake of the feast of happiness, peace, and joy that God grants so bountifully. We can be satisfied and settle for experiences far below our privileges or we can partake of an abundant feast of spiritual opportunity and universal blessings." Elder Uchtdorf #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
http://youtu.be/vV2YlnbXgAs
Day 17: This is one of my favorite talks from one of our apostles. Don't live below your privileges!
"We live beneath our privileges when we fail to partake of the feast of happiness, peace, and joy that God grants so bountifully. We can be satisfied and settle for experiences far below our privileges or we can partake of an abundant feast of spiritual opportunity and universal blessings." Elder Uchtdorf #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
http://youtu.be/vV2YlnbXgAs
"We live beneath our privileges when we fail to partake of the feast of happiness, peace, and joy that God grants so bountifully. We can be satisfied and settle for experiences far below our privileges or we can partake of an abundant feast of spiritual opportunity and universal blessings." Elder Uchtdorf #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
http://youtu.be/vV2YlnbXgAs
Ann Barrow Bradley shared a link.
Day 17: I'm getting ready to enter "busy weekend" mode so you'll get to enjoy one or two or three (I never know just how busy things will get around here) short videos on the Book of Mormon. Countless numbers have been touched by its message. I feel like LeVar Burton when I say it "but you don't have to take my word for it." Just give it a try. What would it hurt?
Ann #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
http://youtu.be/3dNYpXZIN_c
Ann #40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
http://youtu.be/3dNYpXZIN_c
Day 17: Jesus Christ submitted to God the Father's will perfectly.
It is often emphasized that Jesus's main message on earth was love. I believe his main message for us was, "submit to the will of the Father".
There were times when he reprimanded people for choosing love over submission. Let the dead bury the dead (Luke 9:59-62), reprimanding Peter for not wanting the Lord to do the subservient task of washing feet (John 13:8), reprimanding Peter for not wanting Jesus to die (Matt 16:23).
All of these actions, burring parents, honoring someone, not wanting people to leave/die, these are actions all motivated by love. Jesus wanted us to love God enough to submit to His will. Love was not enough, we need to trust God and submit our agency to Him.
God will never take our agency, change our wants or desires, but He has asked us to submit our agency to His will, to change our wants and desires to match His. He promises if we do this He will give us something far better.
Jesus Christ demonstrated our need for complete submission during his entire three year ministry recorded in the New Testament. But the final week of his life the frequency of the message increased. He sealed his testimony of the need of submitting to the Father's will on the Mt. of Olives in Gethsemane, when he asked if the Father be willing, to remove this cup from him. But he ended with his final testament, "Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done." (Luke 22:42).
Jesus Christ drank of the cup, he took on the sins of the entire world, He willingly gave his life when He was the creator of life of this world; He commanded life and death. He did not do any of this so He would be glorified, He gave all glory to His Father. He followed His Father's will perfectly.
The next two days I am going to go into more detail about the events Christ performed for us, which we now call the Atonement. But for tonight, remember while love was a motivating factor for all that He did, trust in the Father's plan and a willingness to submit to this plan were the crucial elements to the atonement.
I know Christ lived a pattern of submission to the Father's will. I know as we learn to do the same, to really trust God, and to really submit our wants and desires to Him, we will be blessed.
#40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
It is often emphasized that Jesus's main message on earth was love. I believe his main message for us was, "submit to the will of the Father".
There were times when he reprimanded people for choosing love over submission. Let the dead bury the dead (Luke 9:59-62), reprimanding Peter for not wanting the Lord to do the subservient task of washing feet (John 13:8), reprimanding Peter for not wanting Jesus to die (Matt 16:23).
All of these actions, burring parents, honoring someone, not wanting people to leave/die, these are actions all motivated by love. Jesus wanted us to love God enough to submit to His will. Love was not enough, we need to trust God and submit our agency to Him.
God will never take our agency, change our wants or desires, but He has asked us to submit our agency to His will, to change our wants and desires to match His. He promises if we do this He will give us something far better.
Jesus Christ demonstrated our need for complete submission during his entire three year ministry recorded in the New Testament. But the final week of his life the frequency of the message increased. He sealed his testimony of the need of submitting to the Father's will on the Mt. of Olives in Gethsemane, when he asked if the Father be willing, to remove this cup from him. But he ended with his final testament, "Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done." (Luke 22:42).
Jesus Christ drank of the cup, he took on the sins of the entire world, He willingly gave his life when He was the creator of life of this world; He commanded life and death. He did not do any of this so He would be glorified, He gave all glory to His Father. He followed His Father's will perfectly.
The next two days I am going to go into more detail about the events Christ performed for us, which we now call the Atonement. But for tonight, remember while love was a motivating factor for all that He did, trust in the Father's plan and a willingness to submit to this plan were the crucial elements to the atonement.
I know Christ lived a pattern of submission to the Father's will. I know as we learn to do the same, to really trust God, and to really submit our wants and desires to Him, we will be blessed.
#40daysoftruth #LentChallenge2014
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