We all love Elder Uchtdorf even though we can’t seem to spell his name. As expected, there is a story related to pilots and airplanes. His objective in this presentation is to encourage us in whatever stage we are in our life to realize that while compared to the universe around us and our obvious nothingness, we are known and loved by the God who created us. What a blessing it is to hear that “The Lord uses a scale very different from the world’s to weigh the worth of a soul.” I suppose that each of us has periods of self-doubt and lack of confidence in our value and so we face this great “paradox.”
“This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God. While against the backdrop of infinite creation we may appear to be nothing, we have a spark of eternal fire burning within our breast. We have the incomprehensible promise of exaltation—worlds without end—within our grasp. And it is God’s great desire to help us reach it.”
His story in the setting of pilot training and competition with applicants that spoke english better than he did show that when we stay the course and fulfill church assignments well as a priority, “Everything will be alright,” to quote my Grandfather Price. I agree that is the case. In the darkest hours of our lives, it always seemed that as we continued to do our best, things changed to show His care for our real intents.
Here are the four divine principles to consider as we ponder our life:
- First, God loves the humble and meek, for they are “greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
- Second, the Lord entrusts “the fulness of [His] gospel [to] be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world.”
- Third, no matter where you live, no matter how humble your circumstances, how meager your employment, how limited your abilities, how ordinary your appearance, or how little your calling in the Church may appear to you, you are not invisible to your Heavenly Father.
- Fourth and finally, please understand that what you see and experience now is not what forever will be.
I love the promises. They are there in the Scriptures and in the spiritual revelations and understandings that come from prayer and an open heart. “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
Some questions for our pondering:
- When you pray with real intent, do you wait for the confirming feeling of His love for you?
- When you don’t understand why a particular trial is in you path, can you patiently wait for the answer to become evident?
- Pride creeps in when we find success, but how should you deal with that feeling according to Elder Uchtdorf?
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His comment about as a pilot looking out at all the stars showed him the greatness of God and reminded him of his nothingness in comparation. The "great deceiver" likes to appeal to our pride of own self importance.
The Lord uses a different scale to measure the worth of a soul.
No matter where we live or how humble our circumstances we are not invisible to our Heavenly Father. He will NEVER forget us.
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