8/9/2017 - Section 60:1-27
August 9, 2017 Section 60:1-17 Open Your Mouth, Missionary Use of Time, Spiritual Growth, Missionaries Show Love, Concern & Care, Go Forward in Faith and Confidence, In v’s 1-3 the Lord speaks to the 28 missionaries who have completed the mission they had been called to in June 1831 and who are now ready to return home. The Lord is happy with the service of many of them, but there are those few who “ will not open their mouths, but they hide the talent which I have given unto them, because of the fear of man…” (v 2). President Joseph Fielding Smith comments on this verse are recorded in Church History and Modern Revelation 1:220-21: … “…There are many who have been sent forth who have had a fear of man, yet the Lord has promised to support them in the labors if they will trust in him.” Spiritual growth almost always requires faithful steps into a new path for us, where we go forward with confidence that the Lord will help us as we struggle to do our very best, and to work...