“No individual and no family is perfect. We all need help
better to speak love here. ‘Perfect love casteth out fear.’ (1 John 4:18)
Faith, service, and sacrifice draw us beyond ourselves closer to our Savior.
The more compassionate, faithful, and selfless our service and sacrifice are in
Him, the more we may begin to fathom Jesus Christ’s atoning compassion and
grace for us. And that brings us to the gospel language of covenant belonging. We
live in a self-centered world. So much is ‘I choose me.’ It is as if we believe
we know best our own self-interest and how to pursue it. But ultimately it is
not true. Jesus Christ personifies this powerful, ageless truth: ‘For whosoever
will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake
shall find it.’” – Elder Gerrit W. Gong
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