Clean hands and pure heart elder bednar4/10/2024 ![]() Do we only know about the Savior, or are we increasingly coming to know Him? How do we come to know the Lord? A grand objective of mortality is not merely learning about the Only Begotten of the Father but also striving to know Him. If Ye Had Known Me The phrases “Ye never knew me” and “Ye know me not” should be a cause of deep spiritual introspection for each of us. ![]() All three require us to love being and remaining worthy. In our homes and at church, we should give balanced emphasis to all three elements of the Lord’s pattern of preparation and progression for faithful sons of God: priesthood, temple, mission. Please learn to love being and remaining worthy. Your love for and understanding of temple ordinances will strengthen and bless you throughout your life. As you live in accordance with gospel standards, you can enter the house of the Lord and participate in sacred ordinances throughout your teenage years. Personal worthiness is the single most important requirement for receiving the blessings of the temple for you young men and for all members of the Church. Going to the temple and having the spirit of the temple go through you precedes effective service as a full-time missionary. Stay worthy.Īfter receiving the Melchizedek Priesthood and a call to serve, a young man can be armed with power through the covenants and ordinances of the holy temple. Prepare now by frequently rendering meaningful service. A lifetime of selfless priesthood service lies before you. Personal worthiness is the single most important requirement for receiving the higher priesthood. Young men, as you fulfill your duties in and honor the Aaronic Priesthood, or lesser priesthood, you are preparing to receive and magnify the oath and covenant of the Melchizedek Priesthood, or higher priesthood. Priesthood and temple blessings, both of which precede arriving in an assigned field of labor, also are necessary to fortify and strengthen us spiritually throughout our entire lives. Working as a missionary certainly is one but not the only important building block in the process of creating a strong foundation for a lifetime of spiritual growth and service. Sometimes as parents, friends, and Church members, we focus so extensively upon missionary preparation for young men that we may neglect to a degree the other vital steps along the covenant pathway that must be fulfilled before beginning full-time missionary service. Three interrelated words define a pattern of preparation and progression for sons of God: priesthood, temple, mission. Perhaps one of the lessons the Savior is teaching us in this revelation is that an assignment to labor in a specific place is essential and important but secondary to a call to the work. ![]() ![]() As missionaries strive to be ever more worthy and capable instruments in His hands and do their best to fulfill faithfully their duties, then with His help they “cannot go amiss”-wherever they serve. But because the work of preaching the gospel is the Lord’s work, He inspires, guides, and directs His authorized servants. I do not believe that the phrase “it mattereth not” as used by the Lord in this scripture suggests that He does not care where His servants labor. But a missionary is not called to a place rather, he or she is called to serve. Bednar.Ĭalled To The Work In the culture of the Church, we often talk of being called to serve in a country such as Argentina, Poland, Korea, or the United States. He has held many prominent positions in the church. ![]() Bednar was called a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 7, 2004. Bednar Prophet Seer And RevelatorĮlder David A. ![]()
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