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| Re: The Greatest Attribute: LOVE [message #2384 is a reply to message #2294] |
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Brrgilbert wrote: "The inference is; therefore, that there are those in mortality who have qualified for their calling and election and HAVE become just men made perfect and just women made perfect because of their capacity and ability to love. Each of us may have an exceptional mortal example of the magnitude of this. Such is the charter of being like Jesus."
I concur with this thought. Only when one learns to truly love his neighbor more than himself can he receive his CE. Furthermore, to become joint heirs with Christ [and have all things as our dominion], we must learn to be filled with charity towards all things. I recently learned this by being given a different slant on one of the often quoted LDS scriptures. I have removed a phrase so that you will get this message:
D&C 121: 45 Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.
46 The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever.
We usually emphasize the "virtue" part of this scripture, but if we emphasize the "charity" part, we learn how God governs the universe. Without compulsory means, his dominion flows unto him forever and ever. We must learn to be full of charity so that we can inherit all things. Inheriting all things means that all things want to be within our dominion [i.e. without compulsory means, they flow unto us for ever and ever].
Stated in another way, because all things have their agency, the only way they will be in our dominion in eternity is if they choose to be. The way to entice them to be in our dominion is by means of loving them in true charitable fashion. This is the grand key to becoming like God. This is also the great secret of leadership in any capacity. We cannot inherit all things without being filled with charity towards all things, because all things have a spirit, and all things have agency to choose who will be over them.
So we can see that the two great laws of Heaven are Agency and Charity, which go hand in hand and can hardly be separated in actual application. If the truth be known, we would find that charity is the great power by which God rules the universe, not any other force. Without charity, he ceases to be God, and is powerless; his dominion leaves. Without charity, we will never become as God. We will be powerless. This is why Satan will ultimately lose, because the world which he has created is based on fear, hate, lust, physical force, etc. But in eternity, these things are of no consequence. Charity and Agency reign supreme.
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