How God pops in at just the right moment to let you know that you're being a little bit precipitous...the quote that arrived in my in-box from a Listserve I use:
"At . . . moments of crisis and challenge, some choose to abandon faith just at the time when it most needs to be embraced. Prayer is ignored at the very hour when it needs to be intensified. Virtue is carelessly tossed aside when it needs to be cherished. God is forsaken in the all-too-human yet mistaken fear that He has forsaken us."
(David S. Baxter, "Faith, Service, Constancy," Ensign, Nov. 2006, 14)
A few weeks ago, a dear friend shared with me some very difficult truths of her own. As I listened to the LDS General Conference, I heard the answer to every one of her questions and the comfort sent for her heartbreak - and I longed to show her that God loved her and had sent many different people to share His message. I didn't pass the message along, however. Hard, long experience has taught me that people who have chosen to turn away value their own opinion far above God's tenderest attempts to calm their troubled hearts and will believe anything except the very idea except the ones He would teach.
In that vein of thought, though, I recognize my own easily swayed heart. I thank God tonight for sending my answer to so many upsetting ponderings via an email and a TV left on for noise while I did homework. He is so good to us all and I am grateful to have Him near me tonight.
1 comment:
Well said. I'm thankful for the knowledge that I have that's he's there for me always.
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