"Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I Am, whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins;"
D&C 29:1
This is a clear, strong message, and one that is pretty central to the gospel. We miss a lot of what God has to say to us because we just aren't listening, so that is our first task. To really listen, we have to quiet the other things that are going on in our heads and distracting us from the most important things... and it's tough. Other people and other responsibilities that aren't bad things at all can still get in our way, let alone all the things out there that are indeed bad.
I think that is part of the reason that idolatry is the first of the 10 commandments. It isn't necessarily just about other objects of worship (though we certainly have many of those), but the idea is also about being distracted from where our focus needs to be, which is on God.
Some of the ways that we can listen are through prayer and scripture study, but other times just finding some quiet and thinking about God or reading a talk or listening to a hymn can help us feel the Spirit and his voice in our lives as well.
Today, let's listen to the voice of Christ. Let's take time in our busy lives to make time for God, and to include him and prepare our hearts to do as he asks. He will never lead us astray. He suffered to give us a chance to succeed, and wants to lift and help us. Let's follow his advice, and work at listening so that we know what that is.
D&C 29:1
This is a clear, strong message, and one that is pretty central to the gospel. We miss a lot of what God has to say to us because we just aren't listening, so that is our first task. To really listen, we have to quiet the other things that are going on in our heads and distracting us from the most important things... and it's tough. Other people and other responsibilities that aren't bad things at all can still get in our way, let alone all the things out there that are indeed bad.
I think that is part of the reason that idolatry is the first of the 10 commandments. It isn't necessarily just about other objects of worship (though we certainly have many of those), but the idea is also about being distracted from where our focus needs to be, which is on God.
Some of the ways that we can listen are through prayer and scripture study, but other times just finding some quiet and thinking about God or reading a talk or listening to a hymn can help us feel the Spirit and his voice in our lives as well.
Today, let's listen to the voice of Christ. Let's take time in our busy lives to make time for God, and to include him and prepare our hearts to do as he asks. He will never lead us astray. He suffered to give us a chance to succeed, and wants to lift and help us. Let's follow his advice, and work at listening so that we know what that is.
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