I wanted to be the first to comment on this scripture and it is very powerful and we need to establish our hearts for the coming of Lord because it will happen very soon and we need to prepare for it now ! Have a great Sunday tomorrow and I love you guys so much ! Love Mariah
I am anxious to see your comments on this scripture. I'm not sure I catch the true significance of what is intended. Being "patient" and "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" doesn't seem to fit. I think more of being anxiously engaged because the coming is nigh. What am I missing? Help me understand.....
I have often prayed to have patience, but I really wanted was "right now" results. Patience means waiting. Waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts and “receiv[ing] the Holy Ghost” so that we can know “all things what [we] should do.” As we follow the promptings of the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience” and we learn to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected.”
The word "stablish" stood out to me this week- made me think of the word "establish". As the time of the coming of the Lord draws nigh and gets closer it will be ever more important that we have established our hearts on the things of the Lord and His gospel. If we haven't built up our spiritual food storage the we will be easily swept up in the instant gratification of the world's ways and require instant results because we have no patience due to the fact that we lack faith. Sometimes waiting and having patience is what is required to demonstrate and act upon our faith.
stablish your heart means to me that you have a firm foundation of beliefs, you set your roots. I think as our roots are set in spiritual soil that we will be firm steadfast and immoveable. We will be like the people in the Book of Mormon who knew about the Lord's coming hundreds of years before his birth, but they look forward with an eye of faith and stayed true to their covenants even though they knew they would never see him in their life time. We may never see Christ come again to the earth but our children might. We need to teach them all that we can so they will be ready. The way they value our teachings is if they see that we live them. One time a councilor in the stake presidency asked me in a PPI if I would recognize the Savior if he came. I had to think about that for a while, but I finally answered yes. I have read and studied the scriptures. I pray every night and day. I listen to our living prophets. I am his child and I know that I will know my brother when he comes. I really doesn't matter if I see him in this life or the next. What matters most is that I can qualify to be with him and Heavenly Father for eternity
I wanted to be the first to comment on this scripture and it is very powerful and we need to establish our hearts for the coming of Lord because it will happen very soon and we need to prepare for it now ! Have a great Sunday tomorrow and I love you guys so much !
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This is a test to see if my other one will be posted !
DeleteI am anxious to see your comments on this scripture. I'm not sure I catch the true significance of what is intended. Being "patient" and "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh" doesn't seem to fit. I think more of being anxiously engaged because the coming is nigh. What am I missing? Help me understand.....
ReplyDeleteI have often prayed to have patience, but I really wanted was "right now" results. Patience means waiting. Waiting upon the Lord means pondering in our hearts and “receiv[ing] the Holy Ghost” so that we can know “all things what [we] should do.”
ReplyDeleteAs we follow the promptings of the Spirit, we discover that “tribulation worketh patience” and we learn to “continue in patience until [we] are perfected.”
The word "stablish" stood out to me this week- made me think of the word "establish". As the time of the coming of the Lord draws nigh and gets closer it will be ever more important that we have established our hearts on the things of the Lord and His gospel. If we haven't built up our spiritual food storage the we will be easily swept up in the instant gratification of the world's ways and require instant results because we have no patience due to the fact that we lack faith. Sometimes waiting and having patience is what is required to demonstrate and act upon our faith.
ReplyDeletestablish your heart means to me that you have a firm foundation of beliefs, you set your roots. I think as our roots are set in spiritual soil that we will be firm steadfast and immoveable. We will be like the people in the Book of Mormon who knew about the Lord's coming hundreds of years before his birth, but they look forward with an eye of faith and stayed true to their covenants even though they knew they would never see him in their life time. We may never see Christ come again to the earth but our children might. We need to teach them all that we can so they will be ready. The way they value our teachings is if they see that we live them. One time a councilor in the stake presidency asked me in a PPI if I would recognize the Savior if he came. I had to think about that for a while, but I finally answered yes. I have read and studied the scriptures. I pray every night and day. I listen to our living prophets. I am his child and I know that I will know my brother when he comes. I really doesn't matter if I see him in this life or the next. What matters most is that I can qualify to be with him and Heavenly Father for eternity
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