Thursday, July 25, 2013

"SOME PIG"

-Charlet's web.Our potential is such that our Heavenly Father desires us to become like Him. That makes all of us SOMEONE special.In The God Who Weeps  Fiona and Terryl Gives write,"Clearly, to aspire to be God is a sin; to desire to be like God is filial love and devotion." As we seek to reach our potential it is necessary to remember our divine heritage and the fact that our Father in Heaven's greatest desire is to see us come back to Him and enjoy the life that He lives, eternal life. I know that this is true. In teachings of the Presidents of the Church Lorenzo Snow we read, "He testified that God will add His strength to our efforts;"Where the Lord plants us, there we are to stand; when He requires us to exert ourselves for the support of these holy principles, that we are to do; that is all we need to trouble ourselves about; the rest Our Heavenly Father will take care of." When we are doing His work of even raising our family, we are entitled to His help, after all, "the greatest work we can do will be within the walls of our own home." (President Joseph F. Smith)I know this to be true also, as I feel His help here in my home.
I would like to frame this thought of how our potential is limitless with C.S. Lewis' thoughts in Screwtape letters as Screwtape is teaching his younger, inexperienced apprentice devil, wormwood, on the dangers of the virtue of being humble, "The great thing is to make him value the opinion for some quality other than truth, thus introducing an element of dishonesty and make believe into the heart of what otherwise threatens to become a virtue. By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools."

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