Hypocrisy
Prayerfully study this material and seek
to know what to share. How will understanding the life and roles of the Savior
increase your faith in Him and bless those you watch over through visiting
teaching? For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.
Faith, Family,
Relief
This is part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring
attributes of the Savior.
Understanding
that Jesus
Christ is without
guile and hypocrisy will help us faithfully strive to follow His example. Elder
Joseph B. Wirthlin (1917–2008) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said: “To
beguile is to deceive or lead astray. … A person without guile is a person of
innocence, honest intent, and pure motives, whose life reflects the simple
practice of conforming his [or her] daily actions to principles of integrity. …
I believe the necessity for the members of the Church to be without guile may
be more urgent now than at other times because many in the world apparently do
not understand the importance of this virtue.”1
Of hypocrisy,
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First
Presidency, said: “None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be.
But we earnestly desire to overcome our faults and the tendency to sin. With
our heart and soul we yearn to become better with the help of the Atonement of
Jesus Christ.”2
We know “we will
be judged according to our actions, the desires of our hearts, and the kind of
people we have become.”3 Yet as we strive to repent, we will become more
pure—and “blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
Additional Scriptures
From the Scriptures
Little children
are without guile. Jesus Christ said: “Suffer the little children to come unto
me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. … And he took [the
children] up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them” (Mark 10:14, 16).
Christ also ministered to the children in the Americas after His
Crucifixion. He commanded that the people bring their little children to Him
and “set them down upon the ground round about him, and Jesus stood in the
midst; …
“… [And] he wept, and the multitude bare record of it, and he
took their little children, one by one, and blessed them, and prayed unto the
Father for them. …
“And as they
looked to behold they cast their eyes towards heaven, and … they saw angels
descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down
and encircled those little ones about, … and the angels did minister unto them”
(3 Nephi 17:12, 21, 24).
Consider This
What can we
learn about being without guile from little children? (See Guide to the Scriptures, “Guile.”)
“As the Child”
cji
4/1/15
Pure and tenderly
innocent
glowing from within
warmth
as the child of our
Father
knowing who he/she is
being perfect giving
love
without guile or hypocrisy
tenderly providing
others
who to follow
righteously
warmth from within
glowing
as the child we
should be!
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