The Coronavirus. . . It’s been in my head all day long. I can’t decide if I should panic over it, or ignore it and wait for it to go away. I’m trying to figure it out. I feel like it’s a warning of sorts. That it is a preparation for bigger things to come. There are many awful things about it and things I don’t like to face, like the financial decisions I have to make in the midst of it, but I don’t think it is all bad.
I don’t think it hurts for all of us to have to check ourselves every now and then. If this was really the last stand, would we know how to survive? Are we equipped with the proper tools and supplies to last? Do we know how to use them? Where to find necessary resources? How to hunker down isolated for extended periods of time? Do we know how to teach our children these things? Can we guide them and lead them physically, financially and most importantly, spiritually?
President Nelson has said that we will NEED to know how to receive revelation for ourselves in these last days if we want to survive spiritually. Have I taught my kids how to do this? Do they have a personal relationship with their Heavenly Father? I may not always be there to show them the way. Can they find it without me? I certainly hope so.
There has been so much urgency and directness from Pres. Nelson about our personal conversions. He has been telling us that we need to get ourselves on solid ground, then reach out to save others. Go and Do is the youth’s theme this year. This is all about the gathering of Israel. Our youth will be the Lord’s hands in this gathering. They will need to be so strong and convicted. Satan is battling them at every corner, and the scary thing is that our youth don’t even know it. They can’t see it, because they are in the middle of it. We really are in the last days.
I have been trying to get myself back to a place where I can get beyond me for others. It is time. I used to call this ‘getting over ourselves’. It sounds harsh, but it isn’t. It is simply being able to let the little flaws or imperfections or difficult things in yourself go so you can make yourself available to help someone else. This is led with your heart. It is being willing to be all in for the purpose of the Lord.
The youth’s theme Go and Do is all about this. It isn’t simply being obedient, although this is part of it, but it is about the willingness to get over ourselves. Our youth are growing up in such a self centered, have everything now day and age. It is easy to self absorb and be blind to everything else around them. It’s a choice and even a default for many. Go and Do is about stepping outside of all of that. It’s about letting it all go, being willing to leave it all behind to serve the Lord in whatever capacity He asks. Right now, I feel like He is asking us to simply love one another openly. All of the prophet’s directives seem to point in this direction, Ministering, Come Follow Me, Go and Do etc. They are about figuring it out for ourselves now and going to work for the Lord.
“Do the spiritual work to find out for yourselves and please do it now. Time is running out.” – President Nelson
