The refiners fire mormon message

Continue How to believe the Lord through our trialsIn all of us wants to be some wonderful creation. We want to be sculpted and molded into something worthy and wonderful. The scriptures refer to the fire of the refinery (Malachi 3:2) and the test of faith by fire, which can help us become this way: It is a test of your faith, being much more precious than the gold that perishes, although it will be judged with fire, can be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ: Who has not seen, you love; in which though now you see it is gone, but believe you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Getting the end of your faith, even saving your souls (1 Peter 1:7-9). If we were a piece of metal, we would have some impurities naturally inside of us. If the creator wants to work with a clean piece of metal, he would have to expose it to a strong heat and pressure to burn the impurities and leave the refined metal behind to form this metal into something remarkable. Kim Martin was a piece of metal. Her first child was diagnosed with a tumor. Cancer was found in her daughter. Her second son and husband died within a few months of each other. In between all the fire tests, all hammer slamming, Kim began to think she wasn't strong enough. But then she noticed what the Lord was doing -- He was creating something more beautiful out of her life than she could create on her own. He used this heat and hammer to make a loving, compassionate, helpful, sensitive servant on his behalf to do his work as few others could. Many of us felt the heat of fire and the crushing blow of a sculptural hammer. We often know: Why me? We want to be free from the fire of the refinery. We can't think of it as something good. What good can come from health problems or financial problems? from the loss of a job, a loved one or a marriage? responsibilities for young children, elderly parents or ward members? from someone you know who has doubts and questions, even if it's someone you? But now our tests are visible in a new, refining light. This fire is real, as is its purpose. Elder quentin L. Cook assured us that the qualities of character and righteousness that are forged in the furnace of sorrow are perfect and purify us and prepare us for meeting God (Songs they could not sing, 2011 general conference). So what good can come for those who have felt or are now feeling the fire? The answer is profound and overwhelming. We will be exactly what He wants us to be. And we will be exactly where He wants us to be. We will be His creation, in his presence. Inspiring Messages5:02 Refinery Fire is not a convenient place to be. It includes intense heat and Hammer. But it is in the fire of the refinery we are cleaned and ready to meet The plan of my life was to have a baby every two years - I had it outlined, I would have a baby every two years. I didn't know how many there were. I wanted a big family, so we had a boy, and then two years later another boy, and at 22 months old, we found a tumor. Suddenly we were thrown into a completely different world. A world I didn't even know existed, we were thrown into the medical world, into surgery. To the hospital, to the chemo. I had a daughter right before we found his tumor -- a week before we found his tumor. He had a rare disorder, I had never heard of him. You know there was nothing else you could do. He died at home. At the same time we had another son. It all started with my daughter, she has bone cancer on her rib. My husband has thyroid cancer and then Burkitt's lymphoma. I've never seen chemotherapy that tough. Drew got bone cancer, as did his sister. It was more intense this time and then Andrea got cancer from her chemotherapy. She needed a stem cell transplant. I was diagnosed the same as my daughter. Andrea recovered very quickly. Drew continued to receive bad news and bad news and bad news. My son died three weeks before my husband. I started thinking maybe I couldn't do it. Maybe I wasn't strong enough. You know, I started to think I could fail. But the Lord didn't let me fail. And I know it's not just for me that He does it for everyone. It's not always about us. As we're not going through this because we have to change or we're not good enough - I've become someone more capable of helping others and compassion and understanding on an intimate level you know what other people are going through and I've found great joy in using things that I've learned to help other people. Especially families who have children with cancer. One of my life missions is to comfort other people who are going through cancer and that you know I know how to do it because I've been through it. It's like for me it's like Newton's law - for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. Equal and opposite. So I think the more our grief, the more opportunities we have to feel joy. I was surprised to feel great tenderness towards my Savior because he is really so sweet. It really provides what you need. Coming to this department is always a very humiliating responsibility. I seek the guidance of the Holy Spirit and pray that what I have to say will be guided by the Spirit and that it can be rooted in abundance for all of us, so that you can understand this special spirit as well. I would like to talk this morning to everyone, but especially to those who believe they have had more trials, sorrows, jabs and than they can endure, and in their adversity almost drowned in the waters of bitterness. My message is intended as a message of hope, strength and deliverance. I say i say refinery fire. A few years ago, President David O. McKay spoke from this pulpit about the experiences of some of those in Martin's handcart company. Many of these early converts emigrated from Europe and were too poor to buy bulls or horses and a wagon. They were forced by their poverty to pull handcarts containing all their belongings across the plains by their own brute force. President McKay recounts an incident that occurred a few years after the heroic outcome: The teacher, conducting the class, said that it was unwise to ever try, even allow them (Martin's company) to meet the plains in such conditions. According to one student, some harsh criticisms of the Church and its leaders were betrayed for allowing any company of converts to enter the plains without any additional supplies or protection than the caravan of handcarts allowed. The old man in the corner ... sat silently and listened as long as he could stand, then he got up and said something that no man who had heard him would ever forget. His face was white with emotion, but he spoke calmly, consciously, but with great seriousness and sincerity. Essentially, he said, I ask you to stop this criticism. You're discussing an issue you don't know anything about. Cold historical facts here mean nothing, because they do not give proper interpretation of the relevant issues. A mistake to send Handcart company so late in the season? Yes. But I was in this company and my wife was in it, and Sister Nelly Unthank whom you brought was there too. We have suffered for everything you can imagine and many have died of exposure and starvation, but have you ever heard a survivor of this company utter a word of criticism? None of these companies has ever retreated or left the Church, because each of us has come with the absolute knowledge that God lives, for we have met Him in our limbs. I pulled out my handcart when I was so weak and tired of illness and lack of food that I could barely put one foot in front of the other. I looked ahead and saw a patch of sand or a hillside and I said I could only go that far and there I had to surrender because I couldn't pull the load through it. He continues: I went for this sand, and when I got to him, the trolley started pushing me. I looked back many times to see who was pushing my trolley, but my eyes didn't see anyone. Then I knew that God's angels were there. I was sorry I decided to come on a handcart? No. Not then, not a minute of my life since then. The price we paid to meet God was a privilege to pay, and I am grateful that I was privileged to come to Martin's company of the Handcart. (Relief Society, January 1948, p. 8.) That's when the great truth. In the agony, and the heroic efforts of life, we pass through the fire of the refinery, and and minor and unimportant in our lives can melt away like slags and make our faith bright, untouched and strong. Thus, the divine image can be reflected from the heart. It's part of cleaning up the toll collected by some to get to know God. In the agony of life, we seem to be better at listening to the weak, pious whispers of the Divine Shepherd. There seems to be full suffering, sadness, and often grief for all, including those who sincerely seek to do the right thing and be faithful. Spikes that pound, which stick in the flesh, which cause pain, often change a life that seems devoid of significance and hope. This change occurs during the recycling process, which often seems cruel and difficult. Thus, the soul can become a soft clay in the hands of the Master in building a life of faith, utility, beauty and power. For some, the fire of the refinery causes a loss of faith and faith in God, but those with eternal perspective understand that such refinement is part of the process of perfection. In our limbs it is possible to be born again, to be reborn, to be renewed in the heart and spirit. We no longer drive with the flow of crowds, but instead we enjoy the promise of Isaiah to be relaunched at our best and set with wings like eagles (Isa. 40:31). Proof of his faith goes to the witnesses, for Moroni testified: Do not get a witness before the trial of your faith (Ether 12:6). This test of faith can be an invaluable experience. Stated Peter: The fact that the judgment over your faith, being much more precious than gold, which perishes, although will be tested with fire, can be found to praise and honor and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 1:7). Trials and tribulations can be preparatory to being born anew. The rebirth from spiritual adversity forces us to become new beings. From The Book of Mosia, we learn that all mankind must be born again - born of God, changed, redeemed, and exalted - to become the sons and daughters of God. (See Mosia 27:24-27.) President Marion G. Romney, speaking from all over the Lord, said of this wonderful power: The impact on everyone's life is also similar. No man whose soul is illuminated by the burning Spirit of God can remain passive in this world of sin and dense darkness. He is driven by an irresistible desire to conform to himself to be an active agent of God in the development of righteousness and in freeing people's lives and minds from the slavery of sin. (In the conference report of October 4, 1941, page 89.) Feelings of rebirth were expressed by Parley. Pratt read: If I were determined to turn the world to dig up a mountain, go to the ends of the earth, or pass the deserts of Arabia, it would be easier than to undertake rest, while the priesthood was upon me. I have received holy anointing, and I will never be able to rest until the last enemy is conquered, death is destroyed, and the truth will reign. (Diary of Discourses, 1:15.) Unfortunately, some of our greatest adversity is the result of our own stupidity and weakness and occur because of our own negligence or transgression. Central to these problems is the great need to get back on track and, if necessary, take part in each step for complete and complete repentance. Thanks to this great principle, many things can be completely right and all things are better. We can go to others for help. Who can we go to? Elder Orson F. Whitney asked and answered this question, Who do we look to in the days of grief and calamity, for help and comfort? ... These are the men and women who have suffered, and from their experience of suffering they bring a wealth of their empathy and condolences as a blessing to those who now need it. Could they have done so if they had not suffered themselves? ... Isn't it God's purpose in causing suffering to your children? He wants them to become more like themselves. God has suffered far more than man has ever done or ever will, and is therefore a great source of sympathy and comfort. (Era of Improvement, November 1918, p. 7.) Isaiah called him a man of sadness before the Savior was born (Isa. 53:3). Speaking in the Doctrine and Covenants of Himself, the Savior said, What sufferings made me, even God, the greatest of all, tremble because of pain, to bleed in every pore, to suffer both body and spirit, and that I do not drink a bitter cup, but shrinks. Some tend to feel that their suffering is a punishment. Roy argues: The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that it was a false idea to believe that the saints would escape from all judgments - disease, pestilence, war, etc. - in the last days; hence, it is not an aelation principle to say that these adversity is due to transgression. ... President Joseph F. Smith taught that it was a weak idea to believe that the disease and suffering that came to us were due to either mercy or God's displeasure. (Doctrine and Covenant says Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1970, vol. 2, p. 373.) Paul understood that perfectly. Speaking of the Savior, he said, Although he was the Son, he learned that he was obedient to what he had suffered; And being perfect, he was the author of eternal salvation for all who obeyed him. (Heb. 5:8-9). For some, suffering is unusual. Stillman Pond was a member of the Second Seventy to Navu. He was an early convert to the Church, originally from Hubbardston, Massachusetts. Like others, he and his wife, Mary, and their children were persecuted and expelled Nauvoo. In September 1846 they became part of the great Western migration. The early winter of the same year brought extreme difficulties, including malaria, cholera and consumption. The family visited all three of these diseases. Maria contracted alcohol and all the children were affected by malaria. Three children died while driving through the early snows. Stillman buried them on the plains. Maria's condition deteriorated due to grief, pain and fever of malaria. She couldn't walk anymore. Weakened and ill, she gave birth to twins. They were named Joseph and Hyrum, and both died within days. The Stillman Pond family arrived in the Winter quarters and, like many other families, they suffered bitterly while living in a tent. The death of five children coming across the plains to the Winter Quarters was just the beginning. In the journal Horace K. and Helen Mar Whitney examines the following in respect of four more children Stillman Pond, who died: On Wednesday, December 2, 1846, Laura Jane Pond, 14 years, ... died of chills and fever. Two days later on Friday, December 4, 1846, Harriet M. Pond, 11 years old, ... died with chills. Three days later, Monday, December 7, 1846, Abigail A. Pond, 18 years old, ... died with chills. Just five weeks later, Friday, January 15, 1847, Liman Pond, 6 years, ... died with chills and fever. Four months later, on May 17, 1847, his wife Maria Davis Pond also died. Crossing the plains, Stillman Pond lost nine children and a wife. He became an outstanding colonizer in Utah and became the senior president of the thirty-fifth Seventy. (See Leon Y. and H. Ray Pond, comps., Stillman Pond, biographical sketch, in Sterling Forsyth Stories, font, Church Historical Department Archives, p. 4-5.) Having lost these nine children and his wife while crossing the plains, Stillman Pond has not lost faith. He didn't leave. He went ahead. He paid the price, like many others before and after, to get to know God.The Divine Shepherd has a message of hope, strength and deliverance for all. If it wasn't for the night, we wouldn't appreciate the day, and we couldn't see the stars and the expanses of heaven. We have to attend bitter with sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversity we face every day. They are prepared, purified, purified, and thus blessed. When we pluck roses, we find that we often cannot avoid the spikes that arise from the same stem. From the fire of the refinery can come a glorious deliverance. It can be a noble and lasting rebirth. The price for getting to know God will be paid. There may come a sacred world. There will be an awakening of sleeping, internal resources. A comfortable cloak of righteousness will be drawn around us to protect us and we are warm spiritually. Self-pity will disappear as our blessings are counted. Now I want to complete my testimony of Jesus as Christ and the Divine Redeemer. He's alive! His sweet words are eternal life. He is the Son of a Living God. It is his holy work and fame. This is his church. It's true. I am very grateful for this sacred knowledge. It is my cherished privilege and duty to testify so humbly that I humbly do. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Amen.

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