.: In the Faith of Christ

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

In the Faith of Christ

I started to create a separate blog for this, but I kept creating posts and putting off the part where I made it public. Something didn't seem right to me about it, and I realized that my faith in Christ is part of my life and since I already have a blog that is my family's life it would only be right to include it here. I was going to call the blog In the Faith of Christ.

Anyway, it hit me one day while listening to a friend speak about her testimony (thank you Emily Wagner!...she probably doesn't even know that I am inspired by her--now she does!:)) that those who know me may not know that I have a testimony of Christ. They may not know that I hold that testimony as one of my greatest treasures. It made me realize that all of life is about choice. I can choose to speak of Christ and preach of Christ or I can choose not to. And choosing not to doesn't mean that I don't want to speak of Christ, for me it means that I am not taking every opportunity and making my own opportunities to do so. I know that all good things come because of our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ.

God lives. He is a perfect God and a God of order. He created a plan for us to return to live with Him again someday because He loves us. That plan is called the Great Plan of Salvation. It is also called the Great Plan of Happiness because by following it we can return to live with our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ and through that have eternal joy. I know this is true. I know that Jesus Christ is central to that plan. I know that He performed the atonement so that we can be forgiven of our sins and so that we can return to Heavenly Father clean and pure even though we make mistakes. This knowledge has gotten me through a near death experience, hard experiences as a child, disappointments in adulthood and many more trials in my life. I can still have peace even with trials because of my knowledge of and faith in Christ. This knowledge, this faith in Christ can bring the same peace to anyone.

I hope that as I post my feelings about Christ that others will be inspired to share their feelings about Christ as well. We can have great hope in our futures and in our lives through Christ.

This is a great article about God's plan for His children:
http://lds.org/general-conference/1997/10/the-plan-of-salvation-a-flight-plan-for-life?lang=eng&query=plan+salvation

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NUMBER ONE SPEECH

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi