Sunday, June 27, 2010
A little more on faith...
I don't remember exactly when it happened but I downloaded General Conference and put all five sessions on my MP3 player. I try to listen to all of conference at work during the week that I trim. Our trimmers run much quieter than the mowers making talks easier to listen to. So while I trimmed and listened to talks, one general authority cited the Bible dictionary: A lack of faith leads one to despair, which comes because of iniquity. So if iniquity leads to, as well as demonstrates, a lack of faith the opposite is also true. Faith is developed by righteous living. We show faith by living righteously and following the Spirit and this in turn builds our faith so that we can live even higher principles.
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that is so ture we need to learn to have faith so that we can become stronger when we have hard times we can lean on it.
ReplyDeleteFaith is so important. Some people may find it strange that we talk about faith so often (it has been the topic in our sacrament meetings this month), but really, it's something we constantly exercise. Or that we constantly should be exercising. Faith born of prayer, fasting, scripture study, and obedience to the commandments, and solidified by the Holy Ghost, will give us the strength we absolutely need in this world. "[With] the shield of faith...ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked;" (Doctrine and Covenants 27:17) sometimes those darts sure can be fiery, but faith will get us through.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the thought.