Day 12

Day 12: Do I love Christ?

Read: John 13: 34-35

         John 14:5

         3 Nephi 13:20-21, 24, 33

Ponder: Do I love as Christ loves?

            Do I keep all of the commanments?

            Have I put another God before Christ?

     How then do we, as women of God, fill the full measure of our creation? The Lord rewards "them that diligently seek him". We seek him not only by studying and searching, by pleading and praying and watching always lest we enter into temptation, but by giving up wordly indulgences that straddle the line between God and mammon. Otherwise we risk being called but not chosen because our "hearts are set so much upon the things of this world."

     Consider the principle taught in the sequence of this scriptural injunction: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy might, mind and strength." What the Lord requires first is our hearts. Imagine how our choices would be affected if we loved the Savior above all else. How we would spend our time and money, or dress on a hot summer day, or respond to the call to visit teach and take care of one another, or react to media that offends the Spirit.

     It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God. We were born for eternal glory. Just as faithful men were foreordained to hold the pristhood, we were forordained to be women of God. We are working to become more pure. And we know that in the strength of the Lord we can do all righteous things because we have immersed ourselves in His gospel. I repeat, we cannot be wormen of the world, for we are latter-day women of God. As President Kimball taught, "No greater recognition can come to us in this world than to be known as women of God."

From "We are Women of God"

Sheri L. Dew

General Relief Society Meeting 25 September 1999