“Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!”
“Consecration is the only surrender which is also a victory. It brings release from the raucous, overpopulated cell block of selfishness and emancipation from the dark prison of pride. Yet instead of striving for greater consecration, it is so easy to go on performing casually in halfhearted compliance as if hoping to “ride to paradise on a golf cart.” (Henry Fairlie, The Seven Deadly Sins, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, p. 125.)
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1992/10/settle-this-in-your-hearts?lang=eng
I decided to add all my highlights of this talk because it was so good. Enjoy!!
“Settle This in Your Hearts” – Neal A. Maxwell Highlights
9.8%:
They may even pass through our holy temples, but, alas, they do not let the holy temples pass through them.
17.6%:
Small equivocations in parents can produce large deviations in their children!
22.7%:
Casual members are usually very busy with the cares and the things of the world—much as honorable Amulek once was. Called many times, he would not hear. He really knew concerning the truths of the gospel, but Amulek would not acknowledge that he knew. (Alma 10:4–6.)
24.8%:
One common characteristic of the honorable but slack is their disdain for the seemingly unexciting duties of discipleship, such as daily prayer, regular reading of the scriptures, attendance at sacrament meeting, paying a full tithe, and participating in the holy temples.
36.4%:
Brigham Young counseled candidly: “Some do not understand duties which do not coincide with their natural feelings and affections. … There are duties which are above affection.” (Journal of Discourses, 7:65.)
41%:
Some would never sell Jesus for thirty pieces, but they would not give Him their all either!
45.7%:
Still others find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these few members lack real knowing. (See John 7:17.)
51.2%:
Only greater consecration will cure ambivalence and casualness in any of us!
55.8%:
We “cannot bear all things now,” but the Lord “will lead [us] along,” as we “give place” in our thoughts and schedules and “give away” our sins, which are the only ways we can begin to make room to receive all that God can give us. (D&C 78:18; D&C 50:4; Alma 32:27, 28; Alma 22:18.)
58%:
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
58.5%:
Consecration is the only surrender which is also a victory.
63.5%:
It is not a question of losing our identity but of finding our true identity!
66.7%:
When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus’ atonement, the world’s hold on us loosens. (See Alma 36:18.)
67.6%:
Increased consecration is not so much a demand for more hours of Church work as it is for more awareness of Whose work this really is!
77.6%:
Becoming more like Jesus in thought and behavior is not grinding and repressing, but emancipating and discovering!
84.9%:
Wherefore, settle this in your hearts, that ye will do the things which I shall teach, and command you.” (JST, Luke 14:28.)
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93.1%:
if we shrink from deeper consecration, then we are not worthy of Him who, for our sake, refused to “shrink” in the midst of His deepening agony during the Atonement! (D&C 19:18.)
97.8%:
Brothers and sisters, whatever we embrace instead of Jesus and His work will keep us from qualifying to enter His kingdom and therefore from being embraced by Him. (See Morm. 6:17.)
Craig
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