While sitting in a recent Fast and Testimony meeting, listening and thinking about beliefs, I thought, "There are many things I believe, but what do I really know--absolutely, without any doubt--know to be true?
It boiled down to a short list, but at the top of that list is my absolutely, no-doubt-about-it knowledge that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the Lord's true church. I have not one iota of doubt about that in my whole soul.
I have been in the Church all my life. I have almost always believed it to be true. Yet after more than five decades of activity in the Church, I still have moments driving down the road when I shake my hands and say, "Is it all really true?"
I do this for three reasons.
One, it isn't the Church I doubt, but the accuracy of our perception of God and of eternity.
Two, because I'm still basically a two-year-old and I think we should question and test everything, especially when we stake our whole life on it.
Third, because our human mind alone cannot know these things; they are known only by the Spirit of God.
So in my questioning and searching, in my testing and proving, and most of all in my serving, I have seen the Spirit of God divers times in every corner of His Church.
I saw it this past week in the miracle of dividing and organizing new wards, and all the incredible things that happen so quickly and so well because of the Spirit and the listening hearts and willing hands of the members.
I feel it when I listen to prophets, seers and revelators in General Conference, in our stake, and even in Sacrament meeting.
I've experienced it consistently in the sometimes inconvenient, soul-stretching opportunities to serve in the Church.
God is in the details. It is His work. Of that I am sure.
Howard W. Hunter queried,
"The Church of Jesus Christ is the true and living Church. Are you a true and living member?"
Ah. That is the question.
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More profundities Georgia, thanks for another thing to ponder. We have an astronomy professor in our ward and he recently said something very similar to what you've said here. That basically he has to teach "truths" to his students but he knows they aren't the truth and that there are very few things in his life that he knows for sure but that the truth of the gospel is one of them.
I was JUST thinking about this on Sunday, but you always say it so much better and with more wisdom than I have yet to learn! How wonderful it is to know the gospel is true!
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