Week 9: Consider the Lillies of the Field

1. Consider The Lilies of The Field How They Grow
Consider The Birds In The Sky How They Fly

Chorus:
He clothes the lilies of the field
He feeds the birds in the sky
And he will feed those who trust Him
And guide them with his eye

2. Consider the sheep of his fold
How they follow, where he leads
Though the path may wind across the mountain
He knows the meadows where they feed

[chorus]

3. Consider the sweet tender children
Who must suffer on this earth
The pains of all of them he carried
From the day of his birth

He clothes the lilies of the field
He feeds the lambs of his fold
And he will heal those who trust him
And make their hearts as gold

Composed by: Roger Hoffman
Performed by: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

I sang this song for my Missionary Farewell, (when they still had farewells).

It holds a special place in my heart.

I was struggling yesterday and this morning on the song I wanted to choose this week.

This was the song that touched my soul, and I just knew it was this week's selection.

I pulled parts of the following talk to follow up with this very wonderful music.

Trust in God, Then Go and Do By President Henry B. Eyring

You show your trust in Him when you listen with the intent to learn and repent and then you go and do whatever He asks.

God sends messages and authorized messengers to His children. I am to build trust in God and His servants enough that we will go out and obey His counsel. He wants that because He loves us and wants our happiness. And He knows how a lack of trust in Him brings sadness.

That lack of trust has brought sorrow to Heavenly Father’s children from before the world was created. We know through the revelations of God to the Prophet Joseph Smith that many of our brothers and sisters in the premortal world rejected the plan for our mortal life presented by our Heavenly Father and His eldest Son, Jehovah.

...The young Nephi in the Book of Mormon stirs in us a desire to develop trust in the Lord to obey His commandments, however hard they appear to us. Nephi faced danger and possible death when he said these words of trust that we can and must feel steadily in our hearts: “I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.”

...That trust comes from knowing God. More than any other people on earth, we have, through the glorious events of the Restoration of the gospel, felt the peace that the Lord offered His people with the words “Be

still, and know that I am God.” ⁶ My heart is filled with gratitude for what God has revealed about Himself that we might trust Him.

...The Father revealed to us that He lives, that Jesus Christ is His Beloved Son, and that He loved us enough to send that Son to save us, who are His children. And because I have a testimony that He called that unlettered boy as an apostle and prophet, I trust His apostles and prophets today and those they call to serve God.

...You show your trust in Him when you listen with the intent to learn and repent and then you go and do whatever He asks. If you trust God enough to listen for His message in every sermon, song, and prayer...

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, "Trust in God, Then Go and Do", Ensign, Nov. 2010, 70–73

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It isn't easy for any of us to trust in God in everything we do...Okay for me, at least.

There are times when I want all the answers and solutions to be laid down in front of me so that I can move forward with an understand that my steps are correct. There are those times where I am truly stuck in one spot wanting to know why, and what has happened and what will happen.  "What if this... what if that..."

Not always, but more often then not. Instead I need to make my choice and know that I am trusting God, believing that my choice is correct and that He will watch over me, and protect me.

Pay my tithing, serve in my calling, be at home with my children and know that he will

"Feed me", because He loves me.  These are choices that require time and sacrifice and we may not always have the things we want but we have always been blessed with our needs and the peace that comes from knowing that God loves me and I can trust him.

I have been blessed...this I know.