10/10/2011

Charity Never Faileth

I know that I am having more good days then bad ones as I am making good choices in life... but it doesn't exclude me from the bad days. In fact, today has not been a great day.
I have dealt with depression and if I am not careful I can slip right back into a bad routine... I also in the past have got so far into depression that I have completely isolated myself. Having been to a point where I have isolated myself completely for a long period of time it has been hard for me to allow people back into my life, to trust others and to see people as kind on occasion. I have to constantly remind myself to be Christlike and allow others into my life.
Christ is a perfect example... and with whatever we may be struggling with we can look to Him to ask for His help or we can look at the life that He lived and Follow Him as He so often invites us to do in the scriptures..
I need to be more Christlike and Charitable. I studied Charity tonight and these scriptures were my findings.
In Moroni 7:45 it says,
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, beleiveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
It is also a commandment that is given to us to be charitable (AKA Christlike)...you have heard it before.
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another."
and Moroni 7:46-47 tells us just how important it is for us to be found Charitable in the sight of God.
"If ye have not Charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all ... and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him."

1 comment:

  1. It helps me to remember how utterly alone Moroni was when he was writing. He'd had a panoramic vision and literally seen our day, and in his painful loneliness felt compelled to lecture us (whom he had seen) on how poorly we so often do at taking care of one another. How he must have longed for someone to take care of!

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