This post is part of the General Conference Odyssey. This week covers the Saturday Morning Session of the October 1993 Conference.
I said a few weeks ago that I'd been thinking about trust in the Lord, and there are some good thoughts on that from Elder Holland's talk in the October 1993 Conference. This is back from when he was a Seventy (even though I feel like he has always been an apostle)!:
He gets going in inimitable Holland style:
The first and great commandment on earth is for us to love God with all our heart, might, mind, and strength because surely the first and great promise in heaven is that he will always love us that way.
And then I loved this:
So much of what so many think about God (if they think about him at all) must make him weep. In fact, we know it makes him weep. … The Father of us all, is divinely anxious to bless us this very moment. Mercy is his mission, and love is his only labor. John Donne said once: “We ask our daily bread, and God never says, ‘You should have come yesterday.’ … [No, he says,] ‘Today if you will hear [my] voice, today I will hear yours.’ … If thou hast been benighted till now, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damp and benumbed, smothered and stupefied till now, God yet comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, … but as the sun at [full] noon, to banish all shadows”.…In a world of some discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly physicians in sight, I too say, “Trust Jesus.” Let him still the tempest and ride upon the storm. Believe that he can lift mankind from its bed of affliction, in time and in eternity.
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