Visiting Teaching
– October 2015
Divine
Attributes of Jesus Christ: Filled with Charity and Love
Prayerfully
study this material and seek to know what to share. How will understanding the
divine attributes 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.
This is
part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring divine attributes of
the Savior.
The Influence of Righteous Women, by Julie Rogers
The
Guide to the Scriptures defines charity as “the highest, noblest, strongest
kind of love” (“Charity”). It is the pure love of Jesus Christ. As we
learn of Jesus Christ and strive to become like Him, we will begin to feel His
pure love in our lives and be prompted to love and serve others as He would.
“Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down,” said President Thomas S. Monson. “It is resisting the impulse to
become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is
accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances
to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to
categorize others.”1
In the
Book of Mormon, we learn the great truth that we “pray unto the Father with all
the energy of heart, that [we] may be filled with this love, which he hath
bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that [we]
may become the sons [and daughters] of God; that when he shall appear we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we
may be purified even as he is pure” (Moroni 7:48).
Additional
Scriptures
From
Our History
“A
sister who had recently been widowed was grateful for visiting teachers who
mourned with her and comforted her. She wrote: ‘I was in desperate need of
someone to whom I could reach out; someone who would listen to me. … And
they listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me …
[and] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first months of
loneliness.’
“Another
woman summed up her feelings when she was the recipient of true charity from a
visiting teacher: ‘I knew that I was more than just a number on the record
books for her to visit. I knew that she cared about me.’”2
Like
these sisters, many Latter-day Saints around the world can attest to the truth
of this statement by President Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015), President of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: “How consoling it is to know that no matter
where [a family may] go, a Church family awaits them. From the day they arrive,
he will belong to a quorum of the priesthood and she will belong to Relief
Society.”3
Consider
This
How is
Christ our perfect example of love and charity?
“So to Become”
cji
10/01/15
So to become like
Father
as did the Son
emulate
becoming pure and
clean
obedient and humbled
sharing tribulations
as one
servants doing
Father’s will
service to others
willingly
so to become as
Father!
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