“He did deliver me from bondage” p. 83, Day 7
I read in a book a couple weeks ago called
“Teaching children Charity” that ‘there are no perfect solutions’. I mentioned this in sacrament meeting last
time I bore my testimony and then the next person said that Christ is the only
perfect solution. I think in the realm
of finding solutions there is a short-term solution which is a temporary coping
skill, and then there is a long-term solution which is what will change the
root cause. This idea is also applicable
when healing the body through herbs.
Treating the body with herbs is the short-term answer. Changing the food that goes into the body to
create a condition where sickness cannot live is the long-term solution. This is the ultimate prevention of
sickness. If you have a clean body there
is no junk for the body to need to clean it out the garbage. I am not into quick fixes. I understand the Law of the Harvest and I am
willing to work and wait. I know real changes
that happen from the inside out are slow and permanent. The slow change is solid. A fast change has fast rebounds.
So in this scripture what they did was ‘yield their
hearts to God’. I’m guessing that was because
of the persecution from their so-called church members they learned to ‘not
revile again’. They were learning true
meekness: to allow wrongs to happen to them without recourse for justice.
MEE'KNESS, n. Softness of temper; mildness; gentleness;
forbearance under injuries and provocations.
I beseech you by the meekness of Christ. 1 Cor.10.
Meekness is a grace which Jesus alone inculcated, and
which no ancient philosopher seems to have understood or recommended.
Their eventual result was the ‘sanctification and
purification of their hearts.’
About a year ago I was going on a trip to St George
with my family. While we were driving
around in St George I was trying to do a phone conference that I had previously
scheduled, much to the dismay of my husband.
I thought I could both take care of my family and talk on the
phone. It turns out that I was putting
my family on the back burner while putting the phone call first. I only woke up to realize my priorities after
Josh got so made that he broke the phone.
I’m not saying that what he did was right, but I did learn much from
it. On the hour drive home I realized I
had a choice. The week before I was
studying meekness and came across this definition. On the way home I was trying to work through
it with the Spirit, and I came to realize that I could keep my pride and loose
my marriage or I could loose my pride and keep my marriage. Somehow gradually through a long painful
process since then I began to learn to be meek and revile not again. That is the day I decided to stay married and
truly began my journey to learn how to be meek as Christ is- to truly become as
He is. It is a hard and painful journey,
but the results are amazing.
I now feel like I have the marriage I have always
wanted. We are not perfect and have
anything less than perfect circumstances.
I realize that we do have all that we truly need. Through prayer and submission, grace and
mercy, I am slowly learning. I have seen
that as I change myself, others around me change too. The opposite does not work. Changing others is a way to avoid true
change, from the inside out. In the
wrong frame of mind, we think the world has to change then we will. If you want to change the world then change
your self. This is the journey to
Christ. I have seen this is true in my
life.
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