7/7/13 Review

The lesson was based around the scripture Doctrine and Covenants 6:7.

We live in uncertain times where job loss and even natural disasters can create financial instability, however, whether we are temporally rich or temporally poor true happiness only comes through the wisdom that we can obtain through the Gospel and our desire to have eternal life.

Here are two sources that were quoted:

Franklin D. Richards

Recently, two young people and one older man have come to me and explained that, although they are successful in a material way, they are unhappy and confused. Each asked my advice as to how he could remedy his situation.

I told them that the Lord had already answered that question when he said:

Seek not for riches but for wisdom, and behold, the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto you, and then shall you be made rich. Behold, he that hath eternal life is rich. (D&C 6:7.)

I suggested that they probably needed to change their priorities in life and seek after wisdom rather than after so many material things and pleasures. ("Seek Not for Riches But for Wisdom," Ensign, May 1976, 35)

Rudger Clawson

Now, we have before us, on the one hand, the riches of eternity, and, on the other hand, the riches of the earth. Which will you choose? If you choose the riches of eternity, then all other things will be added unto you. If you choose the riches of the earth, you may lose all else, yea, even the riches of the earth. There are many, very many among the Latter-day Saints who are rich today, and others who are growing rich; but they do not derive their happiness from riches. There are five sources from which the Saints derive inestimable happiness, and in which the principle and power of wealth has no influence whatever: The first is the possession of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; the second is the contemplation of spiritual things in that Gospel; the third is the blessings of the house of God, in which the endowments are given, and the principle of marriage for eternity is revealed; the fourth is the preaching of the Gospel to a fallen world, thus bringing to pass the redemption of mankind; and the fifth is administering the necessities of life to the worthy poor. This is what brings happiness, pure and unsullied happiness, to the Latter-day Saints. Let us seek after these things. (Conference Report, April 1910, Second Day-Morning Session 67 - 68.)

The story “Three Marbles” by W.E. Petersen (Ensign) was summarized, and General RS President Linda Burton’s First Principle(“All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.” ) from her talk “Is Faith in the Atonement written in our Hearts?” was briefly touched upon.

Next Week (7/14/13): Lorenzo Snow Chapter 13 found HERE