7-9-11 "He did deliver me from bondage" p.42

7-9-11

“He did deliver me from bondage” suggested talk “Born of God” by Benson

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“Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world. Men changed for Christ will be captained by Christ. Like Paul they will be asking, “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?” “

I feel joy in believing this truth.  It has been a long journey for me to believe that I can change the world.  When I was 12 years old I had a step-father who was abusive to my Mother and verbally abusive to the children in the home.  One of the ways as children we learned to cope with life was to make the house look like we had not even been there.  I think that became my whole mentality over then next two decades: to just fly under the radar so no one gets hurt.  It was survival mode.  I am just now learning how to get out of survival-mode, and as I do I am changed by Christ.  I am coming to believe that I can change the world.  It is a very fulfilling hope that I can be an instrument in the hand of the Lord to fulfill the measure of my creation and bring glory to God.  It is a very different place than flying under the radar.  I am now willing to stand for truth, even if I stand alone.  I am willing to go against the whole of society if society is floating downstream. 

I love the story from this talk about President McKay’s dream:

“President David O. McKay tells of a singular event that happened to him. After falling asleep, he said he “beheld in vision something infinitely sublime.” He saw a beautiful city, a great concourse of people dressed in white, and the Savior.

“The city, I understood, was his. It was the City Eternal; and the people following him were to abide there in peace and eternal happiness.

“But who were they?

“As if the Savior read my thoughts, he answered by pointing to a semicircle that then appeared above them, and on which were written in gold the words:

“These Are They Who Have Overcome the World—Who Have Truly Been Born Again!

“When I awoke, it was breaking day.” (Cherished Experiences from the Writings of President David O. McKay, comp. Clare Middlemiss, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1988, p. 102.)

When we awake and are born of God, a new day will break and Zion will be redeemed.”

I once was priviliged to receive a story from the Spirit of “Simple’s Last Journey” where she climbs a mountain and goes into a cave.  There she finds a brilliant light, and sees the Savior who takes her Home.  She found that she overcame the world, because Christ had overcome it.  It ties in beautfully with this dream.