This morning as I was scrolling through Facebook, I saw that my older sister shared a video of President Gordon B. Hinkley's address at the BYU-Idaho Hinkley Building Dedication. I thought that it would be a good message to start the Sabbath Day with and I listened to the words that he shared and was immediately filled with the spirit.
He begins by expressing his love for the young people of the Church through teary eyes and a full heart. He explains that he believes that we are part of the best generation that the Church has ever seen. He assures us that we are enough, and we need to work towards what Heavenly father wants and yearns for us to become. This talk resonated with me, and I know that it will do the same for other young members of the Church. So many of the words that President Hinkley spoke stood out to me. Below I am going to share a few of those:
"The world is on a slippery slide, it is going downhill and it is going fast. And you are as a beacon on a hill young people of rectitude and virtue and decency and goodness. Remain that way. Do not destroy your effectiveness. Do not become involved in any kind of behavior which would destroy you, injure you, hurt you, debilitate you in any way whatever. You don't have to do those things. You can stand above them. You must stand above them!"
"Now, be faithful, be true, go forward, be ambitious. Don't short-circuit yourself. Don't stop now. Keep growing. Keep going. Educate your minds and your spirits and never lose sight of the fact that you are a child of God with a divine destiny and capability of doing great and good and wonderful things. Don't sell yourselves short. Don't cheapen yourselves. You know who you are. Each of you knows that you are a child of God and that your Heavenly Father expects something great and noble and good of you."
"You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to be a straight-A student. You just have to do your very best with all the capability you have. You have to do your very best. And somehow, if you do that, God will open the way before you and the sun will shine, and your lives will be fruitful and you will accomplish great good in the world in which you take a part."
"You are the very fiber of this Church and this Church will grow as its young people the young people of this generation magnify their callings and go forward and serve the Lord and live in loyalty toward Him. God bless you."
"You are just simple kids. You are not geniuses. I know that. But the work of the world isn't done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people who have learned to work in an extraordinary way people of your kind who can do these things."
Just take eight minutes to listen to President Hinkley's full address, and I promise you that your day will be brightened and you will be filled with the spirit.
You know, this was JUST what I needed. This past week I have been struggling with finding my self worth, but you know it's true. We, as humans, have a bad tendency to sell ourselves short and not realize how amazing we truly are. This talk reminds me of the talk this past conference from Elder Carlos Godoy how he recounts the story about applying for a very prestigious scholarship and how he was one of three finalists. The other two were children of REALLY important people but that didn't matter to him cause he is the "Child of God." We need to realize that despite our weaknesses. Thanks for this message!
ReplyDelete(here's that talk) https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/the-lord-has-a-plan-for-us?lang=eng