An Apostle's Easter Thoughts on Christ

Charity The love of Christ

Charity is a word that can have many meanings sometimes it means service or other things like it. However the meaning that has the most influence in my life is the pure love of Christ. I just love that pure love not sort of love or tainted love or love with motives but pure love. Love that has no other motives than our welfare and salvation. Love that does not seek its own interest but the interest of those it cares for. It is a love that can only come from God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.  We to can have this love if we desire because it is a great gift from God. In order to obtain charity we must  pray with all of our heart, but be careful you will start to have feelings of intense caring for the people around you and people at large. Anyway I think the scriptures say it best:  If so, his faith and hope is vain, for none is acceptable before God, save the meek and lowly in heart; and if a man be meek and lowly in heart, and confesses by the power of the Holy Ghost that Jesus is the Christ, he must needs have charity; for if he have not charity he is nothing; wherefore he must needs have charity.

 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail—  But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.

                                                                                             The Book of Mormon Moroni 7:44-48

So that sums it up right there really enough said charity is one of the greatest gifts that we can have from the Father of us all.

Charity: An Example of the Believers

Strength in Christ

And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.
 Ether 12:27 The Book of Mormon
  This scripture invites men to come to Christ to find their weaknesses, and the strength that comes from His atonement. This scripture has provided me with comfort my whole life and is my favorite. I know that true strength comes only through our humility to Christ. Humility is not showing weakness it is strength.