Hi everyone!
In all honesty, the Lord has been too good to me. He truly
does bless me more than I deserve. I am grateful for His mercy. I am grateful
for the organized spiritual backup He provides. There is a calm assurance and
important cleansing that comes through His Spirit. He restarts my desire and
helps me to see that I'm actually not restarting, but continuing my progress.
There is truth in seeing with spiritual eyes and listening
with spiritual ears. The tangible and audible only go so far in communicating
truth to our understanding. The Spirit carries it much farther. I had an
important experience with that this past week.
We found out that several wards in our stake were having
their boundaries realigned. This meant that the people within these
congregations would be changing. There are a multitude of temporal and logical
reasons why these changes would need to occur and there were certainly those
involved, but the grand discoveries of the week were the spiritual and
truth-inspired reasons for these changes.
In a meeting with stake leaders, ward mission leaders and
some missionaries, the topic of charity/pure love of Christ was taught and
discussed. A sister missionary within our district gave that training and the
discussion following it allowed the Spirit to fill the room with the promise of
revelation. The thought was shared that it would be charity which would allow members
of the Church to move on with the ward boundary changes. Then the stake
president spoke.
Certain presiding leaders of the church are given keys of
authority. These aren't physical keys. We believe that all keys of power and
authority come from the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe He has given some of
these to prophets in the past and again in our day. Stake Presidents are
delegated certain of these keys for local church organization.
President Asay is our stake president and is a good guy.
When he spoke in this meeting, I heard the words he spoke, but I also felt a
distinct spiritual impression that he was called of God.
The wards changed and as a result, we said goodbye to
several great people that we were working with, but with the faith that the Lord
has something better in store for them.
These are interesting things to think about and may even
seem strange. An analogy (not a good one, but it might explain things
decently)....my parents have full authority in our family, no matter what
anyone else or myself could say! :) They hold the keys to the house and the
car, etc. At some point, I was entrusted with some of those keys to operate the
car or enter/leave the house when it was necessary. They are the source of that
permission, but when given that permission I am now able to do things that I
previously wasn't able to. Other people in my family or neighborhood would
readily recognize that I have that permission and not make a big deal about my
having permission to drive. (unless I really screw up!) Probably didn't explain
that real well.
I hope you have a wonderful week everyone and that you can
recognize goodness all around you!
Love,
Elder Adamek
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