Enter the Gate
Greetings amidst the Winter Warning -
I hope you are all safe. I have seen pictures from the Northern Clan. They have received a "Fair Bit". From the pictures, it looked like they were hunkered down for the President's Day Weekend and not planning on adventuring out.
It has been another quiet week. My thoughts have been filled with many pondering thoughts has I have been out and about. I dropped in and out of 3 Nephi 27:31-33. This is the end of chapter 27. I have learned a great deal from it. As I pondered these last few verses. I found myself dwelling upon verse 33. The Lord has filled my life with many impressions.
Jesus ended this sermon by saying, "...Enter ye in at the strait gate..." Our Bishop talked a little about a visual this past week when I was meeting with him. Over the summer, he traveled with the young men to Red Castle. As they approached the trail head, the found themselves having to pass through a GATE. There was a warning on the GATE about the trail that lay before them. As they committed and passed through the GATE, they found themselves beginning a grand adventure.
We are asked to do the same. This gate is the head of a trail that "...leads to life..." It is a journey, not an end point.
These thoughts have been capitalized this week as I reviewed Elder Holland's Conference Address "Be Ye Therefore Perfect - Eventually". In his address he references several times an address given by President Russell M. Nelson from 1995. I looked it up and added it to my study. "Perfect" does not mean sinless, but finished or complete in Greek. As President Nelson studied the Bible in Greek and English he learned that the real message was to become "Finished" or "Complete" like God the Father or Jesus Christ.
Just before Christ passed away, He said, "...I have finished the work thou gavest me to do..." It was not until then that He had become Perfect.(John 17:4) My question is, was He done at that point? Did His journey end there? Or did He continue on?
This is just but one small journey we are being asked to finish or perfect. When we are complete, we will move on to the next. The process of growing, developing, and becoming more and more like God the Father will continue. But until then, we keep moving forward and doing our best to FINISH the work He has given us to do.
In the course of this life, we do that with several thing. Some of them we are able to nail with greatness, others not so much, that is Okay. We just get back up and pass through the next gate, learning from our experiences, and capitalizing on them during the next adventure.
This is the way Christ did it, He grew from one experience to the next, setting an example for us to follow. Because He did so without error or sin, He is able to make up the differences when we do not complete each task without error or sin. His life was all part of His Atonement.
Those are my thoughts this week.
Our week has been good.
The Queen started jet setting early this week. She departed Sunday evening to the West Coast. She spent the first four days of the week walking the beaches of the airport in Southern California. On Thursday, she headed to Houston for the day, and then skipped back to us for the weekend. She is not 100% yet, but getting close.
The Professor counted down the days to track off this week. She is on the mend as well and is looking forward to the time off.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo opened a show this weekend. It has kept them busy.
Puddin and Lady Hawkins are busy, busy, busy. It sounds and looks like they got a bit of snow. It is supposed to hit us tonight, but hopefully not too bad so we can start jet setting in the week to come.
I hope you are all safe. I have seen pictures from the Northern Clan. They have received a "Fair Bit". From the pictures, it looked like they were hunkered down for the President's Day Weekend and not planning on adventuring out.
It has been another quiet week. My thoughts have been filled with many pondering thoughts has I have been out and about. I dropped in and out of 3 Nephi 27:31-33. This is the end of chapter 27. I have learned a great deal from it. As I pondered these last few verses. I found myself dwelling upon verse 33. The Lord has filled my life with many impressions.
Jesus ended this sermon by saying, "...Enter ye in at the strait gate..." Our Bishop talked a little about a visual this past week when I was meeting with him. Over the summer, he traveled with the young men to Red Castle. As they approached the trail head, the found themselves having to pass through a GATE. There was a warning on the GATE about the trail that lay before them. As they committed and passed through the GATE, they found themselves beginning a grand adventure.
We are asked to do the same. This gate is the head of a trail that "...leads to life..." It is a journey, not an end point.
These thoughts have been capitalized this week as I reviewed Elder Holland's Conference Address "Be Ye Therefore Perfect - Eventually". In his address he references several times an address given by President Russell M. Nelson from 1995. I looked it up and added it to my study. "Perfect" does not mean sinless, but finished or complete in Greek. As President Nelson studied the Bible in Greek and English he learned that the real message was to become "Finished" or "Complete" like God the Father or Jesus Christ.
Just before Christ passed away, He said, "...I have finished the work thou gavest me to do..." It was not until then that He had become Perfect.(John 17:4) My question is, was He done at that point? Did His journey end there? Or did He continue on?
This is just but one small journey we are being asked to finish or perfect. When we are complete, we will move on to the next. The process of growing, developing, and becoming more and more like God the Father will continue. But until then, we keep moving forward and doing our best to FINISH the work He has given us to do.
In the course of this life, we do that with several thing. Some of them we are able to nail with greatness, others not so much, that is Okay. We just get back up and pass through the next gate, learning from our experiences, and capitalizing on them during the next adventure.
This is the way Christ did it, He grew from one experience to the next, setting an example for us to follow. Because He did so without error or sin, He is able to make up the differences when we do not complete each task without error or sin. His life was all part of His Atonement.
Those are my thoughts this week.
Our week has been good.
The Queen started jet setting early this week. She departed Sunday evening to the West Coast. She spent the first four days of the week walking the beaches of the airport in Southern California. On Thursday, she headed to Houston for the day, and then skipped back to us for the weekend. She is not 100% yet, but getting close.
The Professor counted down the days to track off this week. She is on the mend as well and is looking forward to the time off.
Tall Man and Ehl-Bo opened a show this weekend. It has kept them busy.
Puddin and Lady Hawkins are busy, busy, busy. It sounds and looks like they got a bit of snow. It is supposed to hit us tonight, but hopefully not too bad so we can start jet setting in the week to come.
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