2023 September 25, Journal Entry

Bill Harvey and I did our duty as security at the roving Tabernacle display that is currently at the Highland Stake Center. We were there from 0700-0900. Then Cathy and I went  to church and I sang in the choir. I took a nice walk afterward and got my step goal. 

Come Follow Me 

Galatians 1:10, For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

"When people try to save face with men, they can unwittingly lose face with God. Thinking one can please God and at the same time condone the disobedience of men isn’t neutrality but duplicity, or being two-faced or trying to “serve two masters.”

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments."

By Elder Lynn G. Robbins Of the Presidency of the Seventy, October 2014

Book of Mormon reading 

The commandments of Alma to his son Helaman. Comprising chapters 36 and 37.

Chapter 36, Alma testifies to Helaman of his conversion after seeing an angel—He suffered the pains of a damned soul; he called upon the name of Jesus, and was then born of God—Sweet joy filled his soul—He saw concourses of angels praising God—Many converts have tasted and seen as he has tasted and seen. About 74 B.C.

22 Yea, methought I saw, even as our father Lehi saw, God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels, in the attitude of singing and praising their God; yea, and my soul did long to be there.

Chapter 37, The plates of brass and other scriptures are preserved to bring souls to salvation—The Jaredites were destroyed because of their wickedness—Their secret oaths and covenants must be kept from the people—Counsel with the Lord in all your doings—As the Liahona guided the Nephites, so the word of Christ leads men to eternal life. About 74 B.C.