Oh for the Love and Christmas Spirit offered towards one fellowman.
Those who struggle with understanding of those at one moment profess Jesus Christ as the Savior of Mankind yet are slow keep His Commandment to “Love One Another.”
When I heard the talk on “Beware of Pride” by Ezra Taft Benson I understood it for the Holy Ghost had touched my heart and I witness with anguish at my fellow man that lack the love towards those who were not as blessed to know and have felt the love of the Savior.
It also made me aware that one can profess to Love the Lord yet when it is revealed how easy one can feel contempt towards those who are slow in getting with the program.
Instead took insult towards one who most likely never felt the warmth of Lord therefore could not embrace what came naturally to some to believe.
One can believe in the Lord but do they sincerely embrace the Lord spirit
1. 2 Pet. 3: 9, 15
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
1. 1 Cor. 13: 1-4, 8, 13
1 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
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8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
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13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity
O Holy Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQWXfHzOKUU
Silent Night http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2Tnp9whDU
Panis Angelicus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKQYFgkcB8
hearing this I feel the soul cries out for peace and love
ceased the bickering, baiting, contending
Until the heart softens and the knee bends it is all for naught
Love conquers all. And love is speaking The Truth at all times, even if someone doesn't want to hear it. There is a difference between someone not knowing yet, still growing (which we all are) and one that doesn't want to know and deliberately defies The Truth. We are not to cast pearls before swine and to hate evil as much as God does.
Jesus didn't enter one town because He knew of their unbelief. And it certainly wasn't because He didn't love them!!
Those who struggle with understanding of those at one moment profess Jesus Christ as the Savior of Mankind yet are slow keep His Commandment to “Love One Another.”There is a group of people who do NOT understand what LOVE fully means.
For one. it does NOT mean to ACCEPT anything that comes down the pike.
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.
The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.
This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."
Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.