This is part of a series of Visiting Teaching Messages featuring divine attributes of the Savior.
The Attributes of Jesus Christ: Filled with Charity and Love
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The Guide to the Scriptures defines charity as “the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love” (“Charity,” scriptures.lds.org). It is the pure love of Jesus Christ. As we learn of Jesus Christ and strive to become like Him, we will begin to feel His pure love in our lives and be prompted to love and serve others as He would. “Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down,” said President Thomas S. Monson. “It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.”1
In the Book of Mormon, we learn the great truth that we “pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that [we] may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that [we] may become the sons [and daughters] 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” (Moroni 7:48).
Additional Scriptures
John 13:34–35; 1 Corinthians 13:1–13; 1 Nephi 11:21–23; Ether 12:33–34From Our History
“A sister who had recently been widowed was grateful for visiting teachers who mourned with her and comforted her. She wrote: ‘I was in desperate need of someone to whom I could reach out; someone who would listen to me. … And they listened. They comforted me. They wept with me. And they hugged me … [and] helped me out of the deep despair and depression of those first months of loneliness.’“Another woman summed up her feelings when she was the recipient of true charity from a visiting teacher: ‘I knew that I was more than just a number on the record books for her to visit. I knew that she cared about me.’”2
Like these sisters, many Latter-day Saints around the world can attest to the truth of this statement by President Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015), President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: “How consoling it is to know that no matter where [a family may] go, a Church family awaits them. From the day they arrive, he will belong to a quorum of the priesthood and she will belong to Relief Society.”3
Consider This
How is Christ our perfect example of love and charity?Notes
1. Thomas S. Monson, “Charity Never Faileth,” Ensign, Nov. 2010, 124.2. Daughters in My Kingdom: The History and Work of Relief Society (2011), 119–20.
3. Daughters in My Kingdom, 87.
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thank you for your VT handouts. I am the RS secretary and I print them off for the sisters to pass out to those they visit teach. I love how you have them done right away before end of month, so I can print them for last sunday of month!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for this handout! I handed them to each of my sisters. They are beautiful!
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