Sunday, April 12 - Imported

Here are some interesting things I learned today at church. First, one of the things we learn from Jesus is that He always took time for other people — even when He didn’t feel well or when He had more important things to do. Those things actually weren’t important. The important thing is that we do make time for others and help others even if it is a bad day for us physically or emotionally. I need to learn to ignore such considerations just as Jesus did if I am to follow His example.

All of our work can be a way to serve the Lord.

I have been listening to some scholars unravel the New Testament accounts of Jesus’s last week. As they unravel it, they explain most miracles away. They prove they can do this. But, if that is so, how do they explain that Christ’s life changed the WORLD? That it had an impact is undeniable. They can’t explain that. There is something else about Jesus’s story that they are missing.

In Sunday School, we heard the story again about Joseph Smith rebuking the prison guards who were being vulgar. Here, again, is a story that is incomplete in a way. It doesn’t make sense. Why would the guards apologize, quake, and remain silent? They did, though. You cannot explain it away. There was something else.

That is what people miss who are unfamiliar with religion, so religion doesn’t make sense to them. They hear the stories and they don’t make sense and they wonder “How can people believe these things?” It is because they have not experienced that something else. If they once did, though, everything would fall into place and they would never see the world the same again.