5/10/2018 - Section 95:5-17
May 10, 2018 Section 95: 5-17 Called but not Chosen, Walking in Darkness at Noonday, Charity, Service, Contention, Obedience, Growth in the Gospel, In v 5 the Lord talks of those that called, but not chosen. The student manual had a comment (p225) on this phrase, that made me examine my ways: “It is one thing to be called to labor in the vineyard and another to be faithful in the performance of that work. Only those who faithfully fill their callings are chosen by the Lord for exaltation in the kingdom of God. Those who are called but not chosen “have sinned a very grievous sin, in that they are walking in darkness at noon-day” [v6], for they do not respond to the light of the restored gospel that surround them.” (see also D&C 121:34-40)—which I looked up. The part that stood out to me as I read it was “ …but when we undertake…to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any...