VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE That They May Be One
Prayerfully study this material and seek for inspiration to know
what to share. How will understanding the purpose of Relief Society prepare
daughters of God for the blessings of eternal life?
“Jesus achieved
perfect unity with the Father by submitting Himself, both flesh and spirit, to
the will of the Father,” taught Elder D. Todd Christofferson of
the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
“… Surely
we will not be one with God and Christ until we make Their will and interest
our greatest desire. Such submissiveness is not reached in a day, but through
the Holy Spirit, the Lord will tutor us if we are willing until, in process of
time, it may accurately be said that He is in us as the Father is in Him.”1
Linda K.
Burton, former Relief Society General President, taught how to work toward this
unity: “Making and keeping our covenants is an expression of our commitment to
become like the Savior. The ideal is to strive for the attitude best expressed
in a few phrases of a favorite hymn: ‘I’ll go where you want me to
go. … I’ll say what you want
me to say. … I’ll be what you want me to be.’”2
Elder
Christofferson also reminded us that “as we endeavor day by day and week by
week to follow the path of Christ, our spirit asserts its preeminence, the
battle within subsides, and temptations cease to trouble.”3
Neill F.
Marriott, Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, bears
testimony of the blessings of striving to align our will with God’s will: “I
have struggled to banish the mortal desire to have things myway,
eventually realizing that my way is oh so lacking, limited, and inferior to the
way of Jesus Christ. ‘His way
is the path that leads to happiness in this life and eternal life in the world
to come’ [“The Living Christ”; emphasis added].”4 Let us
strive humbly to become one with our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
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How
does doing the will of God help us to become more like Him?
Notes
1. D. Todd Christofferson,
“That They May Be One in Us,” Liahona,Nov. 2002,
72, 73.
2. Linda K. Burton, “The
Power, Joy, and Love of Covenant Keeping,”Liahona, Nov. 2013,
111.
3. D. Todd Christofferson,
“That They May Be One in Us,” 71.
4. Neill F. Marriott,
“Yielding Our Hearts to God,” Liahona, Nov. 2015,
32.
“One =
One”
cji
7/1/17
My sheep
shall be but one
one mind–and
one purpose
thus is
the plan of salvation
that we
might all be one
eternal
and forever a family
generation
upon generation
becoming
as Father and Son
one mind
- one purpose
one
shepherd one flock
one =
one eternally!
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