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quote icon 'This question kept recurring to me: How could I ever leave my church? Had not the Lord called me to be a pastor many years ago? I had never doubted that calling. Had I been mistaken? If The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the true Church of Christ upon the earth, why had the Lord not called me into that Church? These thoughts left me confused and questioning. One afternoon when I was in my bedroom at prayer, the Lord spoke to me clearly these words: "You can stay in this beautiful garden that you have made, or you can come with me and play for higher stakes." 'It is so hard for the uninspired human mind to comprehend the mind of the Lord. I was puzzled. It seemed impossible for the Lord to have spoken such words. My puritan upbringing revolted against the thought of the Lord using the terms of a gambler. It also seemed unlikely that the Lord would mix his metaphors in an English sentence. I thought my senses must be deceiving me. Yet I heard the words as clearly as I ever heard words spoken from human lips. 'It occurred to me some days later that the Lord was telling me that there was a great risk involved in my accepting the concept of the restored gospel as taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I had a choice. I could remain where I was, where I had achieved a ministry helpful to many people, also where I had attained a measure of success and material security; I was doing a work of service and mercy that was acceptable to the Lord. Or I could leave it and labor for greater, celestial rewards for myself and my family. Also, there were "higher stakes" of service to others that I could not imagine at that time. (Sometimes the Lord takes things away from us so that he can give us something better-he took away a ministry I loved and gave me a much larger ministry of teaching the gospel to thousands of youth.) But should I prove unfaithful in the higher calling it would be much better if I remained in "the garden" of service where I was.'
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