General Conference, ‘Trust in God then Go and Do,’ October 2010; “If you trust God enough to listen for His message in every sermon, song, and prayer in this conference, you will find it. And if you then go and do what He would have you do, your power to trust Him will grow, and in time you will be overwhelmed with gratitude to find that He has come to trust you.” – Henry B. Eyring
Psalm 146:3; “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.”
John 2:24-25; “But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men 25 And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man..”
After I read this quote I asked myself, does God need to come to trust us? There are many things that concern me about the way Mormons see God.
One of those is how they see him as responding to things the same way a human would, and today’s example is case in point.
“… they see him as responding to things the same way a human would, and today’s example is case in point.”
That’s exactly what it is, human thought and actions. It’s all part of earning your way…
“… if you then go and do what He would have you do…you will be overwhelmed with gratitude to find that He has come to trust you.”
BUT… God is not like man as the Mormons want you to believe.
“My ways are not your ways, my thoughts are not your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8
He is not man, have sex and procreate, and do the things that the LDS teaches. That said, He doesn’t need anything; we don’t have to earn His trust in us. We couldn’t earn it if we wanted to.
The chains enslaving us to ‘earning’ are cut away with Jesus’ death and resurrection. We are free to serve Him and at peace.
Amen! I’m so thankful to be cut loose from those chains. As the Christian song goes “my chains are gone, I’ve been set free, my God, My Savoir has ransomed me”. 🙂 – Melissa Grimes