I was impressed by last week's Priesthood lesson, "Establishing the Cause of Zion." One section of the lesson seemed particularly applicable to our goal of being a Zion family: "We build up the cause of Zion by becoming a people who are pure in heart and by working diligently with one heart and mind."
Some of the specific counsel Joseph offered us includes:
I am certain that we can establish the cause of Zion in each little eternal segment of our family, in our various homes and communities, wherever we are, as we diligently come to Christ, accept and obey his counsel, serve each other with love.
Love,
Dad/Mark
Some of the specific counsel Joseph offered us includes:
"… We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object. … The time is soon coming, when no man will have any peace but in Zion and her stakes."
"There will be here and there a Stake [of Zion] for the gathering of the Saints. … There your children shall be blessed, and you in the midst of friends where you may be blessed."
"Anyplace where the Saints gather is Zion, which every righteous man will build up for a place of safety for his children."
"[We] pray our heavenly Father that you may be very prayerful, very humble, and very charitable; working diligently, spiritually and temporally, for the redemption of Zion, that the pure in heart may return with songs of everlasting joy to build up her waste places, and meet the Lord when He comes in His glory [see D&C 101:18]."
I am certain that we can establish the cause of Zion in each little eternal segment of our family, in our various homes and communities, wherever we are, as we diligently come to Christ, accept and obey his counsel, serve each other with love.
Love,
Dad/Mark
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