John L. Lund's Audio CD titled "Love One Another" includes the following, which I absolutely love (
bolding is mine):
There
were some kinds of challenges that President Kimball had that were
very, very difficult and it came to a point of sometimes weighing
church membership in the balance and he had to make the decision. And
it was on the basis of his decision that the first presidency of the
Church would act at the time, because this was when he was an apostle.
President
Kimball under those circumstances would say that sometimes lives are so
complex, conditions are so incredibly confused, guilt and
responsibility are so diffused in so many ways that it is very, very
difficult and it is not a clear cut issue of right and of wrong. And he
said that frequently with some of these more difficult problems he would
pray mightily unto the Lord and ask for His guidance and direction and
sometimes would not receive a clear cut answer as to the direction that
he should proceed and that when that would happen, he would stop and ask
himself the question:
“What is the loving thing to do?”
And he
said, "Some day I know that I will stand before the judgment bar of God,
and some of the decisions I made will have been wrong. I will have
erred. I will have made a mistake that maybe the decision should have
been another way."
And the Savior will ask me:
“Why did you make
that decision? That was not the correct decision.’"
And I will say with the integrity of my heart:
"Lord, I did that
because at the time I wasn’t sure what was the direction that I should
go and so I made what I thought was the loving decision.”
I am confident that God will look down upon me on those occasions and forgive me of my error."
1 comment:
Absolutely. There are sins of love, and sins of hate. 'Let the more loving one be me'
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