I am humbled and honored to have the opportunity to speak to you today. I have pondered for quite a while what I would say today and pray that the Holy Spirit will be with me and with each of you so that we might all be edified. I am not a very eloquent and polished speaker, so the presence of the Spirit is likely the only hope I have of not putting all of you to sleep.
I served a mission in El Salvador and Guatemala many years ago. Early in my mission, while at the LTM, the Language Training Mission, in Provo learning Spanish, I listened to a recording of a BYU Devotional given back in 1976 by George Durrant, who was a faculty member in the BYU Religion Department at the time (Durrant, 1976). In his talk, Brother Durrant told of an experience he had while serving in the Army during the Korean War. The story touched my heart when I heard it those many years ago and I would like to share it with you today.
Shortly after completing his missionary service in England and returning home, Brother Durrant was drafted into the Army and sent to Korea where he served for a year and a half. In this time, he rose to the rank of PFC, or Private First Class, a level just above the lowest level of enlisted personnel. I mention this not because being a PFC is a bad thing, but because it played a role in this story.
While he was there, Brother Durrant said he grew to love the Korean people, even though he did not speak their language. Since he did not speak Korean and the Korean people spoke very little English, they came up with a middle language that allowed them to communicate with each other. For example, if there was a Jeep that was running really well he might say to his Korean colleague, “this a number one Jeep” and he would say, “Ah, number one.” And if the Jeep were sputtering and not performing well, he might say, “this a number ten Jeep” and he would reply, “oh, number ten Jeep.” So they had a scale on which they ranked things: they ranked Jeeps, and men, and all sorts of things. And if something was number one, then it was the very best.
During this time of war, the Korean people would come onto the Army grounds to perform work that the Army personnel did not like to do and which the Koreans were happy to do because they were paid for it and so it worked out well for everyone. As they would come onto the grounds, there were no sidewalks to walk upon, only pathways that went from one building to another. As they would walk down these dirt paths, they often became narrow and on either side of the paths were the grass and the weeds and the rocks. Often as you approached someone coming the other direction, someone had to get off the path and stand in the weeds while the other person passed by on the path. After he had been there just a few weeks, he observed that it was the Koreans who always got off the path and the U.S. soldiers walked passed them on the path. Brother Durrant felt that this was wrong and said he made a point to get off the path and let them pass by while he stood in the weeds. It was a little thing, but he felt good in doing it and he had to be quick to get off the path or they would beat him to it. As he did this, he would smile and say a simple Korean greeting as they passed by him. When he did this, they would look at him, smile, repeat the greeting he had given them, and then look again at him as they were walking away. Though it was not a big deal, they seemed to be impressed with his efforts to get off the path and to let them stay out of the weeds.
During the time of the Korean War, Christianity had only recently been introduced to the people of Korea. Sometimes the people would become confused with what the Bible said and the way the Christian soldiers conducted themselves. Their actions and behaviors did not clearly reflect the teachings from the Bible.
The heart of this story was an experience that Brother Durrant had one evening when he had been in Korea for just over a year. On this particular night, he went to get dinner and he was one of the last soldiers to arrive. In the Army, when you go to the mess-hall for your meals you stand in a line with the other soldiers to get your food and if you are the last person to get in line, you could have a very long wait. Since the line was very long and he knew it would be quite a while before he could get his dinner, he decided to go sit with five of his friends, who already had their food, and visit with them while he waited for the line to go down. Had he been a higher rank than PFC, a Korean waiter would have gone through the line for him and brought him his food and he could have avoided the lines altogether. But since he was a Private First Class, this did not happen for him and so he sat and visited with his friends and waited. While he was seated and talking with his friends, not aware of what was going on around him, he suddenly felt someone standing at his side. He looked up and there was a Korean man, about 30 years old, working as a waiter in the mess-hall, standing next to him with a beautiful tray of food. The waiter was about to put the tray down in front of him and Brother Durrant attempted to stop him, feeling that the waiter had made an obvious mistake. But the man gently pushed the tray in front of him and said as he looked down at him, “I serve you, you a number one Christian.” Brother Durrant said nothing at that moment, but said that he always remembered this as the greatest compliment that anyone ever paid to him: “I serve you, you a number one Christian.”
As I sat in the LTM over 30 years ago and listened to this talk by Brother Durrant, I was very touched by the story of his experience in Korea. I thought to myself at that moment that I would really like to be a number one Christian and that thought became one of my greatest desires. Over the years, I have learned that becoming a number one Christian is not simply something that I would like to do, but it is something that I need to do if I want to return and live with Father in Heaven again. The Korean man in Brother Durrant’s story had assumed that getting off the path is what makes a person a Christian and he certainly was partially correct. In my life, I have also learned that becoming a number one Christian is not something that can and will happen overnight. Rather, it is something that requires a lifetime of effort, lots of repenting, learning along the way, overcoming challenges and obstacles, loving and serving each other and most importantly, taking advantage of the healing power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
In his address, The Challenge to Become, from the October 2000 General Conference, Elder Dallin H. Oaks stated: "The Apostle Paul taught that the Lord’s teachings and teachers were given that we may all attain “the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). This process requires far more than acquiring knowledge. It is not even enough for us to be convinced of the gospel; we must act and think so that we are converted by it. In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to know something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.
"From such teachings we conclude that the Final Judgment is not just an evaluation of a sum total of good and evil acts—what we have done. It is an acknowledgment of the final effect of our acts and thoughts—what we have become. It is not enough for anyone just to go through the motions. The commandments, ordinances, and covenants of the gospel are not a list of deposits required to be made in some heavenly account. The gospel of Jesus Christ is a plan that shows us how to become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become" (Oaks, 2000).
What does Heavenly Father desire for us to become? We have several references in the scriptures that discuss this. The Savior taught his disciples on at least two occasions that he would that we should be perfect (Matthew 5:48, 3 Nephi 12:48). After his resurrection, in his teachings with the people in the Americas, he asked the question, “what manner of men ought ye to be?” and then answered, “even as I am” (3 Nephi 27:27).
For you and for me, this might seem like an impossible task. Were it not for the Father’s great plan for us, His children, it would be impossible. With the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, we have a greater understanding of this plan. Robert L. Millet, who happens to be the Devotional speaker for next week, said this: "Joseph Smith penetrated the veil and opened the heavens. He saw God and Jesus Christ. In the process, he came to know something of everlasting import: that the Almighty God is in very deed our Heavenly Parent, the Father of our spirits, that he loves us perfectly and completely, and that he yearns to bless us here and exalt us hereafter. Through his Only Begotten Son he has made available the very powers of Godliness, enabling us as mortals not only to be with God once again, but also to be like him. Nothing would bring our Eternal Father greater happiness than for his children to return to that divine presence they once enjoyed. Such knowledge fosters hope; it engenders joy and rejoicing" (Millet, 1995, p. xi).
The Christian writer, C.S. Lewis remarked: "The command 'Be ye perfect' is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command. He said (in the Bible) that we were ‘gods’ and He is going to make good His words. If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—He will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature.... The process will be long and in parts painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less. He meant what He said" (Lewis, 1952, pp. 174-175).
As part of God’s plan for us, we were sent from His presence to this earth to receive a physical body. His plan required that we be given our agency. In order for us to become like Him, we must choose for ourselves, between good and evil. The prophet Lehi, in the Book of Mormon, taught his sons that there must be “opposition in all things” and that men are “free to choose liberty and eternal life” or “to choose captivity and death” (2 Nephi 2:11, 27). With regard to this, Elder Neil L. Andersen said this: "The choice between good and evil is at the very heart of our experience on earth. In the final review of our lives, it will not really matter if we were rich or poor, if we were athletic or not, if we had friends or were often forgotten.
"We can work, study, laugh and have fun, dance, sing, and enjoy many different experiences. These are a wonderful part of life, but they are not central to why we are here. The opportunity to choose good over evil is precisely why we are here" (Andersen, 2005).
We are here to make choices and we will make many, many choices throughout our lives. When we are young, our parents help and encourage us, sometimes strongly encourage us, to make good choices. As we get older, though, we must learn to make those choices for ourselves. I recall an experience with my son Jimmy when he was about six years old, an age when you are starting to be more independent and wanting to make your own choices, or at least to have more input on those choices.
Jimmy was in first grade and we were living in Tucson, Arizona at the time. He had a friend in his class at school who had an earring and encouraged him to get one too. Jimmy came home from school and told us that he wanted to get an earring because his friend had one and he thought it would be a pretty cool thing to do. This was nearly twenty years ago, and even though the prophet had not given specific guidance for men not to wear earrings, neither Keri nor I felt that it would be a good thing for Jimmy to do. Not wanting to simply tell him no without an explanation or reason, and not really having a reason other than we did not want him to get an earring, I told him that I would think about it and let him know. After thinking about it for a few days, I sat Jimmy down and told him that we did not want him to get an earring because we needed to follow the example of our prophet and the other general authorities and since they did not have earrings, we should not have them either. I was expecting a little bit of resistance from Jimmy, and I was surprised when he simply accepted the decision and never asked again. A few days later, Keri picked up Jimmy from school and gave one of his friends a ride home. It happened to be the friend with the earring. As they were driving home, Keri overheard the conversation between Jimmy and his friend. His friend asked him when he was going to get an earring and Jimmy told him that he was never going to get one. When his friend asked why, Jimmy replied: “Our prophet does not have an earring and I might be the prophet someday, so I am not going to get an earring.” Though he did not fully understand at that age how one is selected to be the prophet, his heart was in the right place. He desired to follow the prophet and that desire helped him to in his choice to accept mine and Keri’s decision.
As we get older, the desire for the things of the world can make it harder for us to always choose good over evil. Elder Neal A. Maxwell said: "For true believers, the tugs and pulls of the world—including its pleasures, power, praise, money, and preeminence—have always been there. Now, however, many once-helpful support systems are bent or broken. Furthermore, the harmful things of the world are marketed by pervasive technology and hyped by a media barrage, potentially reaching almost every home and hamlet" (Maxwell, 2000).
The tugs and pulls of the world, as Elder Maxwell described them, are being marketed in such a way that it is difficult to avoid them. Keeping these things out of our homes and out of our lives is increasingly more challenging, but not entirely impossible. Because of His great love for each of us, Heavenly Father has provided us tools to help us in our journey to become. Among these tools we have the scriptures, living prophets, seers, and revelators, and the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The scriptures can be a great source of strength for us if we will study and ponder them each day. In last month’s General Conference, Elder Quinton L. Cook said, “Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment” (Cook, 2012). Alma taught that the word of God had a “more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword” (Alma 31:5). Making time each day for scripture study will strengthen us in our resolve to keep the commandments. Additionally, in the scriptures, we can ponder the teachings of Jesus Christ and learn more of him and what we must do to become like him.
As members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we are blessed to have living prophets, seers, and revelators on the earth and to hear from them at least every six months in General Conference. These special witnesses of Jesus Christ teach us and remind us of the things that we need to be doing to become. Brigham Young once said this when talking about importance of prophets: “when compared with the living oracles [the living prophets] those books [the scriptures] are nothing to me; those books do not convey the word of God direct to us now, as do the words of a Prophet or a man bearing the Holy Priesthood in our day and generation. I would rather have the living oracles than all the writing in the books” (Woodruff, 1897). I do not think he was telling us not to study the scriptures, but I do think that he wanted to make it clear that the words of the living prophets are very important and we need to study their words as well. With modern technology, we have no reason not to do this. Within hours of the end of a session of General Conference, we can go online and watch or listen to any and all of the talks. Perhaps it is time to fill the iPod with the words of the Prophet rather than the music of Lady Gaga or any other popular artist.
Baptized members of the Church are blessed to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, the third member of the Godhead. As we study the scriptures and the teachings of the living prophets, the Holy Ghost can bear witness to us of the truthfulness of what we are studying. In the last General Conference, Elder Walter F. Gonzalez said that as we seek “to learn essential truths with our hearts... impressions that come from God will give us knowledge that we cannot get by any other means” (Gonzalez, 2012). And in the Book of Mormon we are taught that “by the power of the Holy Ghost [we] may know the truth of all things” (Moroni 10:5).
In addition to testifying of truth, the Holy Ghost can help us to change and overcome the natural man. Elder Orson Pratt wrote: "Without the aid of the Holy Ghost, a person... would have but very little power to change his mind, at once, from its habituated course, and to walk in newness of life. Though his sins may have been cleansed away, yet so great is the force of habit, that he would, without being renewed by the Holy Ghost, be easily overcome, and contaminated again by sin. Hence, it is infinitely important that the affections and desires should be, in a measure, changed and renewed, so as to cause him to hate that which he before loved, and to love that which he before hated: to thus renew the mind of man is the work of the Holy Ghost” (Pratt, 1976).
The scriptures, living prophets, and the Holy Ghost are necessary and invaluable tools in helping us to become like the Savior. Our desire to become like him is also important. As we learn of him and his ways, we will try to be more like him. I love the Primary song I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus:
I’m trying to be like Jesus;
I’m following in his ways.
I’m trying to love as he did, in all that I do and say.
At times I am tempted to make a wrong choice,
But I try to listen as the still small voice whispers,
“Love one another as Jesus loves you.
Try to show kindness in all that you do.
Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought,
For these are the things Jesus taught” (Perry, 1980, p. 78).
Being kind, loving, gentle and serving others is part of the process of becoming. Elder Daniel L. Johnson said this in General Conference: "Making the covenant to be a disciple of Christ is the beginning of a lifelong process, and the path is not always easy. As we repent of our sins and strive to do what He would have us do and serve our fellowmen as He would serve them, we will inevitably become more like Him. Becoming like Him and being one with Him is the ultimate goal and objective—and essentially the very definition of true discipleship.
"Becoming as the Savior is not an easy task, especially in the world in which we live. We face obstacles and adversity virtually every day of our lives. There is a reason for this, and it is one of the primary purposes of mortality. As we read in Abraham 3:25, 'And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them'" (Johnson, 2012).
As I mentioned earlier, becoming like the Savior is a life-long process. It will not happen in a single moment. I still remember well the feelings I had listening to Brother Durrant’s talk over thirty years ago. I truly wanted to be a number one Christian. As my family, friends and students can attest, I am not there yet, but I would like to think that I have made some progress. Elder Oaks says that the scriptures suggest various ways in which we can measure our progress and he mentions two in particular: "After King Benjamin’s great sermon, many of his hearers cried out that the Spirit of the Lord 'has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually' (Mosiah 5:2). If we are losing our desire to do evil, we are progressing toward our heavenly goal.
"The Apostle Paul said that persons who have received the Spirit of God 'have the mind of Christ' (1 Corinthians 2:16). I understand this to mean that persons who are proceeding toward the needed conversion are beginning to see things as our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, see them. They are hearing His voice instead of the voice of the world, and they are doing things in His way instead of by the ways of the world" (Oaks, 2000).
According to these measures suggested by Elder Oaks, I think I am making progress, but I still have a ways to go. It is not a race or a competition in which only a few can win the prize. We can all make it. Elder Bruce R. McConkie declared: "[You] don’t need to get a complex or get a feeling that you have to be perfect to be saved. You don’t... that you have to do is get on the straight and narrow path—thus charting a course leading to eternal life—and then, being on that path, pass out of this life in full fellowship. I’m not saying that you don’t have to keep the commandments. I’m saying that you don’t have to be perfect to be saved. If you did, no one would be saved.... If you’re on that path and pressing forward, and you die, you’ll never get off the path. There is no such thing as falling off the straight and narrow path in the life to come, and reason is that this life is the time that is given for men to prepare for eternity. Now is the time and the day of your salvation, so if you’re working zealously in this life—though you haven’t fully overcome the world and you haven’t done all that you hoped you might do—you’re still going to be saved.... You don’t have to live a life that’s truer than true. You don’t have to have an excessive zeal that becomes fanatical and becomes unbalancing. What you have to do is stay in the mainstream of the Church and live as upright and decent people live in the Church.... If you’re on that path when death comes—because this is the time and day appointed, this is the probationary estate—you’ll never fall off from it, and, for all practical purposes, your calling and election is made sure" (McConkie, 1982).
Elder Maxwell stated: "By paying more attention to what we are rather than exclusively to what we do, our public and our private persons will be the same-the man or the woman of Christ. . . . God is infinitely more interested in our having a place in His kingdom than with our spot on a mortal organizational chart. We may brood over our personal span of control, but He is concerned with our capacity for self-control. Father wants us to come home, bringing our real résumés, ourselves!" (Maxwell, 2000).
So, why does any of this matter? Why should we care if we become like our Savior Jesus Christ? An experience I had recently helps to illustrate why I feel it is so important.
Near the end of August of this year, the CES (Church Educational System) Executive Committee visited our campus. The Executive Committee is comprised of two members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Elder Russell M. Nelson and Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, Elder Donald L. Hallstrom, and Sister Linda K. Burton, Relief Society General President. I was privileged to attend one meeting with the Executive Committee in which several BYU-Hawaii students gave presentations about research or other special programs in which they had been or were involved on campus. Though the students were a bit nervous to present to such a distinguished group, they were also very excited to be in the presence of two of the living Apostles. Later that day, I had the opportunity to attend a luncheon with all of the student presenters, their faculty advisors, the BYU-Hawaii President’s Council and the Executive Committee.
At the conclusion of the luncheon, the President’s Council and the Executive Committee returned to the Aloha Center and resumed their meetings. The students were not invited to the afternoon meetings, but many of them lingered for quite a while just outside of the room in which the meetings continued. They did not want to leave. They stayed right outside the room and quietly visited with each other. After several minutes, I asked a few of the students why they did not leave. I knew they were busy and had many other things that they could be doing at that time, yet they did not leave. One of the students replied, “I just love the feeling I have when I am close to them and I don’t want to leave.”
As I walked back to my office, I pondered what this student had said. The students had felt such warmth and love from these Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ that they did not want to leave. Even being outside of the room was special for them.
This reminded me of an event that happened during the visitation of Jesus Christ to the people in the Americas after his death and resurrection. In the Book of Mormon, in 3 Nephi, we read of his visiting and teaching these other sheep of the house of Israel. In Chapter 17, after he had been with them and taught them for a while, he tells the people to go to their homes and to ponder the things which he had said to prepare their “minds for the morrow” when he would come to them again. But they did not want him to leave. They loved being in his presence and wanted him to stay. Beginning in verse 5 we read: “And it came to pass that when Jesus had thus spoken, he cast his eyes round about again on the multitude, and beheld they were in tears, and did look steadfastly upon him as if they would ask him to tarry a little longer with them. And he said unto them: Behold, my bowels are filled with compassion towards you. Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them, for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy” (3 Nephi 17:5-7).
Then the multitude did go to him and he did heal them. “And they did all, both they who had been healed and they who were whole, bow down at his feet, and did worship him; and as many as could come for the multitude did kiss his feet, insomuch that they did bathe his feet with their tears” (3 Nephi 17:10).
The scriptures teach that each of us will one day stand before the Lord to be judged (Mosiah 27:31; D&C 88:104). In fact, every person who has ever lived upon the earth, male and female, Christian and non-Christian, regardless of race or nationality, will be brought before the Savior to be judged by him. I imagine that in his kind, loving, inviting way, he will ask us to come unto him and to feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet. And we will bow down at his feet and worship him and we will kiss his feet and bathe them with our tears. In the same way that the people he visited in the Americas did not want to leave the presence of the Savior, we will not want to leave his presence. With all our hearts, we will want to stay with him and remain in his presence for all eternity. And we will be blessed to do so, if we have done our best, in this life, to become like Him.
We are in the last days, brothers and sister, and Satan and his hosts are fighting like never before to win the hearts and souls of men and women throughout the entire world. He wants you to fail. He wants you to be discouraged and to believe that you cannot become what you need to become. He wants you to lose hope and give up. Do not let him win.
When you have days where you feel like you are losing the battle, and you will have such days, remember the story of the prophet Elisha in the Old Testament. Israel was at war with the Syrians. Elisha had counseled the King of Israel on how to defend against the warring Syrians. The King of Syria, wishing to end the conflict with Israel sent “horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night and compassed the city about” (2 Kings 6:14). When Elisha’s young servant arose in the morning he beheld the great host of the Syrian army that had surrounded the city with horses and chariots. At that moment, I am sure that this young man felt like he was losing the battle and had little hope of survival. He then went in to Elisha and in desperation said to him, “Alas, my master! How shall we do?”
I am sure that Elisha could sense the fear in his servant’s voice, but seeing as a prophet sees and knowing what a prophet knows, he said to the young man, “Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha” (2 Kings 6:15-17). And with this help from on high, they did not lose this battle.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland stated: “In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike—and they will—you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham’s seed” (Holland, 1980).
Heavenly Father knows you and He loves you. He wants you back with Him. Through the Atonement of His Son, Jesus Christ, he has made it possible for you to overcome the natural man and to become all that he needs you to become. If we will do all that we can, if we will keep loving and serving each other, keep getting up each time we are down, repenting quickly and day by day overcoming the world, becoming more and more like His Son, His promises to us are great.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you; And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along” (D&C 78:17-18).
“I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up” (D&C 84:88).
“The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours” (D&C 78:18).
Yes, the promises and riches of eternity are amazing and they can be ours. May the great desire of our hearts be to become what we need to become, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, so that we may dwell forever in the presence of the Father and His Son in eternal happiness, I humbly pray in the name of our Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, amen.
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