Today at church a speaker based his talk around the idea that Christ has asked us to be a light to the world. He started with Mathew 5:14 and also quoted D&C 103:9, which not only says that we are to be a light unto the world, but that we are also to be saviors of men. The emphasis was that Christ is the light of the world, and we are to show his light to all. We are to do as He would do in bringing all who are willing to salvation.
Another scripture quoted in this talk was Luke 4:18, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set a liberty them that are bruised." Here Jesus describes his role on earth.
When we are baptized and make covenants with our Savior, we promise to be his witnesses and his servants. His work should be ours. So...
It should be our goal to share the gospel with love to all who will hear, as He would and did and does. It should be our goal to bring his spirit into people's lives where it can heal the brokenhearted, deliver captives from their captivities of illness, sin, error, and other things that bind men. It should be our goal to help everyone see truth, and set them at liberty through his gospel.
Into my mind, though our speaker did not mention this, came the Lord's statement of his mission and purpose from Moses 1:39, that his work and his glory is "to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man." It came to me that if this is the Lord's goal and the purpose of all that He does, and if I am sincere about being his servant and furthering his cause, then the most important goal that I have should be to do whatever I can to contribute to this goal. My mission statement in life should reflect that my highest goal is to help bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
I, of course, can do nothing compared to Master, and very little compared to many of his authorized servants who are so much more capable than I. But what I can do, I should do; and I can love those around me. I can comfort them when they sorrow, I can bless them through my service. I can testify to them of Jesus and so let the spirit teach them the things of eternal life. These things should be my highest goals. I hope that I can do better at keeping these goals in mind, and acting accordingly.
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