RS Mini Lesson—March 4, 2018
"Be Ye Therefore Perfect—Eventually"
by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
Discussion Leader: Careen Walker
“If we persevere, then somewhere in eternity our refinement will be finished and complete.”
· “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father … in heaven is perfect.” With that concluding imperative, we want to go back to bed and pull the covers over our head. Such celestial goals seem beyond our reach. Yet surely the Lord would never give us a commandment He knew we could not keep.
· As children of God, we should not demean or vilify ourselves, as if beating up on ourselves is somehow going to make us the person God wants us to become.
· May I remind all of us that we live in a fallen world and for now we are a fallen people. We are in the telestial kingdom; that is spelled with a t, not a c. As President Russell M. Nelson has taught, here in mortality perfection is still “pending.”
· Except for Jesus, there have been no flawless performances on this earthly journey we are pursuing, so while in mortality let’s strive for steady improvement without obsessing over what behavioral scientists call “toxic perfectionism.”
· If we persevere, then somewhere in eternity our refinement will be finished and complete—which is the New Testament meaning of perfection.
Weekly Challenge: Re-read the talk by Jeffrey R. Holland. Find something in the message that inspires you to feel greater love and admiration for Christ and a greater desire to be like Him.
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