Thursday, February 20, 2014

Time to meet God! ...are you ready?


What will it be like when we meet God?

What kinds of questions will he ask you?

What answers would we give?

How comfortable would we be in His presence?

Did we make our Heavenly Father proud of us?

Did we make the choices that He knew would make us truly happy?

God is just.  He might ask you to share your testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  He might ask you how much you know of the Gospel.  What is your Gospel understanding?
I believe many questions our Loving Heavenly Father will ask us, will be about how we (God's children) treated others (more of God's children).  Mosiah 2:17

Did we help people who struggled?

Did we lift one another's burdens?

Did we strive to help people feel loved?

Did we LEARN how to love?

Did we TEACH how to love?

Did we LIVE as examples of His Son, Jesus Christ?

Did we mourn with those that mourned?

Did we comfort those that stood in need of comfort?

I do not believe God needs to ask us questions because he doesn't know the answers.  He might ask questions so that we answer.  When we answer certain questions, our souls are stirred up in remembrance of what we have been taught, whether we were taught yesterday, or long before.  Jesus Christ asked many questions.  I think this is a good teaching skill that we all should seek to develop.
A good example is in Matthew chapter 5

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. 

I believe that much of our judgement in the end will have to do with how we kept the two great commandments.  

 in Matthew 22, we read:

  37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
 38 This is the first and great commandment.
 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
 41 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,
 42 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.
 43 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,
 44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
 45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
 46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

I put together some of these questions and some of these thoughts so that you might be stirred up in remembrance of the Lord, Jesus Christ.  I invite you to make right choices.  Be the man or woman God knows you can be.  God loves you.  He roots for you.  He cheers you on.  He wants you to be happy.  I know that happiness comes from making right choices.  Living as God would want you to.

"Be the change you wish to make in the world."  -A Quote by someone unremembered by Elder Hart at this time, but I really like it.

In short

Be good.  Stay good.  Rely on Jesus Christ.  Perhaps God won't smite you at the judgement day.  :)
...and remember... God loves you.  He is your Father... and He loves you.

1 comment:

  1. These are motivating, game changing questions! I love this blog!! We need to be a little more open, love a little sooner and more thoughtfully, lift others and live life a little bigger! Trevor Hart's Sunday School lesson was incredible today. Taught about Lot's wife, and how longing for, or clinging to, the past is the exact opposite of having faith in the future! Elder Holland said, "Her attachment to the past outweighed her confidence in the future! Faith is ALWAYS pointed toward the future." If we are preparing to meet God, we have to courageously let go of the past, and trust in the Lord's ability to give us something better than what we have had. And that we MUST do our part. With love, Elder Hart's mom, Sister Hart.

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