Today began in our usual way to prepare for the days activities. We had our morning devotional and prayers, and we discussed the events we were anticipating today. Mom came across the Scriptures in Philippians pertaining to "thinking". We have been "ponderizing" various Scriptures since our last General Conference. This has been a wonderful exercise of repetitious learning, as Elder David A. Bednar would say. We study one Scripture each week, and then pick out another one to ponder for the following week.
Well, the following verses were chosen, by us, to ponderize this week. So often, we worry about things that we spend too much time worrying about! This Scripture from Philippians 4:8 was our choice to ponder. And as we were reading over the verse #8, the others became equally significant.
In verse #6 the footnote adds this insight to the first word "Be"; "Don't be unduly concerned about anything". While we all have worries and concerns, the main point here is that we worry too much, and we do not let the Lord help us carry the burden of this worry.
Verse #7 and #9 talks about the 'peace of God'. Verse #10 talks about 'rejoicing greatly'..... does that sound familiar?? Look at the Christmas video, "A Savior is Born", and see where the phrase 'rejoice greatly' is repeated! Verse #11 talks about being content. Verse #12 talks about being 'abased', which means to be humble. And being humble helps us to be both 'full' and 'hungry'! And the last verse #13 lets us know we can do anything with Christ.
Philippians 4:6-13
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased,
and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
The day was cooler than yesterday. We were able and very anxious to walk this morning to our Church meetings. In fact, we were fulfilling an assignment to be the greeters, this morning, for the Sacrament meeting. We were in our places by 7:15am and we enjoyed saying good morning to the missionaries as they arrived.
On our way to the Church I caught some of our friends frolicking in the field ahead of us. They even put on a 'jumping' show as they ran across the road! Here is the family as they appeared this morning;
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| Checking out the two missionaries walking along "their" roadway |
After our meetings, and our assignment at the Visitors Center until 2:00pm, we walked back home and enjoyed a very quiet afternoon together. We had our favorite Sunday meal of breakfast for dinner. Then we both took a nap. We also got to talk with one of our precious daughters.
We capped off our evening by listening to Elder Bednar's BYU-Idaho devotional from January 26, 2016, about "Repetitive Learning". We were both touched by this presentation, in our mission training meeting a few weeks ago, and the review was excellent. It has been a wonderful Sabbath day!
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