Like a Fire is Burning

The other day I had the opportunity to attend the dedication of the Draper Utah Temple, and just after the dedicatory prayer and the hosanna shout (a part of the temple dedication) we sang "the spirit of God like a fire is burning," and as we sang the spirit washed over me and brought me back to a time in my childhood when I was three years old. I was in a church meeting where those same words were sung and I felt then, just as i did a few days ago, that great manifestation of the spirit that the song portrays. I did not know, when I was a child, and wish someone had told me sooner, the significance of those words or the feelings associated with them. But later, much later, I was taught of the importance and significance of those feelings that come to our hearts. I was taught that those feelings are truly the Spirit of God, testifying to us of the truthfulness of the message. The message in this case is the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and that "the latter day glory" is beginning to come forth. Though I still don't fully understand the impact of that message, I know that Jesus Christ appeared to the prophet Joseph Smith and gave unto him many plain and precious truths that have been hidden and lost over the ages. And I know that Christ's Church is restored on the Earth once more.

Need for More People

This past week I have been noticing the need to include more people in
my life. The Savior devoted his life to others. He left his home and
His possessions to teach the gospel—to fulfill His Mission as the Son
of God. His disciples did likewise. We learn in Mathew chapter 4 vs
18-22 that Peter, Andrew, and James all “left their nets” to follow
the Savior. In other words, they left their work behind to follow the
Savior and share the gospel with other. While not all of us are called
to serve missions of the sort of Peter, James, and Andrew, each of us
are presented each days with choices of where or not we are going to
serve the Savior in the places we live and work, to “Lift where we
stand” as modern prophet have taught us. So I’ve decided to make a
greater drive to serve as the Savior did by being the best the can and
once in a while, to leave work, school, or homework behind to lift
where I stand.