7/10/2018 - Section 103:1-4
July 10, 2018 Section 103:1-4 Trials, Obedience Exact, Heart Might Mind and Strength, Growth, This section covers the deliberations of the leaders of the church, and the revelations from the Lord, as the saints worked to re-establish themselves after being forced from their homes, and re-establish their commitments in living the commandments. This terribly hard time –as to the loss of their homes, and the loss of peoples’ lives, and the terror they must have felt—is explained by the Lord as occurring 1) that their enemies “ might fill up the measure of their iniquities” (v 2) and 2) that the Saints or “ those who call themselves after my name might be chastened for a little season with a sore and grievous chastisement, because they did not hearken altogether unto the precepts ad commandments which I gave unto them”. This is a time that clearly reinforces D&C 82:3 which says “ of him unto whom much is given much is required.” What a reminder to me when I g...