The True and Living Church

My thoughts on President Eyring "The True and Living Church"

“Now our obligation is to remain worthy of the faith necessary for us to fulfill our promise to sustain those how have been called.”
I had never thought of my faith being part of my promise to sustain the Prophet and other general authorities or even local leaders. WOW what an earth shattering thought for me.

“For us to sustain those who have been called today, we must examine our lives, repent as necessary, pledge to keep the Lord’s commandment and follow His servants. The Lord warns us that if we do not do those things, the Holy Ghost will be withdrawn, we will lose the light which we have received, and we will not be able to keep the pledge we have made today to sustain the Lord’s servants in His true Church.”
My thoughts go back to early in the Church’s history; those who didn’t keep the commandments, fell away and their support and faith of the chosen leaders was deeply felt. I wonder what my little bitty pieces of faith does to the chosen leaders today.

Elder Eyring asks us to evaluate ourselves (oh, don’t we just love to look at the huge old beam in our own eye!). “First, we need to measure the depth of our gratitude for membership in the true Church of Jesus Christ. Second, we need to know by the power of the Holy Ghost in what ways we can do better in keeping the commandments.”
This last sentence is the one I’m praying for daily. I’m not feeling the Spirit too often in my home so I know there is something missing and so I’m praying to find out what it is that I’m not doing so I can do it better. I pray for help each day trying to figure out why the Spirit of Contention is rampant in our home and how to get him out. I’m sure most of it is lain at my feet, so I pray harder each day to fix one more thing. (Ok, I pray for the whole week or even the month to fix that one thing before I move on to the next.) and then he adds this: “Our lives will be transformed for the better as we exercise faith unto repentance, always remember the Savior, and try ever harder to keep His commandments.” I’m hoping for the transformation—I NEED IT!

I love service. To me that is the ultimate in expressing love. When President Eyring said, “Every member will have opportunities to sustain through service given in the name of God, “ my heart jumped. That is how I can best show my love for the Prophet and other leaders. That is how I can express love to my Relief Society President by doing my visiting teaching. This to me is the best example of our church—by their fruits they will know them.