Content with the Things Allotted unto Us
Neal A. Maxwell April 2000 Sunday Afternoon Session
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In just a few words, a major insight came to the conscientious and the converted through Alma: “For I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me” (Alma 29:3).
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In just a few words, a major insight came to the conscientious and the converted through Alma: “For I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me” (Alma 29:3).
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In just a few words, a major insight came to the conscientious and the converted through Alma: “For I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me” (Alma 29:3).
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In just a few words, a major insight came to the conscientious and the converted through Alma: “For I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me” (Alma 29:3).
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Thus becoming content with his calling, Alma then meekly hoped to be an instrument to help save some soul (see Alma 29:9).
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the people began to be distinguished by ranks, according to their riches and their chances for learning; yea, some were ignorant because of their poverty, and others did receive great
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Nevertheless, we are to do what we can within our allotted “acreage,” while still using whatever stretch there may be in any tethers.
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Some undergo searing developments that cut suddenly into mortality’s status quo.
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Meanwhile, we serve as each other’s clinical material in the particular sample of humanity constituting what is “allotted unto [us].” The sample may shrink or swell, but most important is what we are and what we do within those varied allocations and in the particular “work to which [we] have been called” (Alma 29:6).
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Thus, less spectacular episodes, just as good individuals with lower profiles, are “no less serviceable” in order to get the job done (Alma 48:19).
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On a larger scale, for instance, the prophet Mormon at first thought his people were sorrowing unto repentance (see Morm.
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On a larger scale, for instance, the prophet Mormon at first thought his people were sorrowing unto repentance (see Morm.
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On a larger scale, for instance, the prophet Mormon at first thought his people were sorrowing unto repentance (see Morm.
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Life’s necessary defining moments come within our allotments, and we make “on the record” choices within these allotments.
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Ponder how Jesus was and is the Lord of the universe (see D&C 45:1; 76:24; Moses 1:33; 2:1).
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Ponder how Jesus was and is the Lord of the universe (see D&C 45:1; 76:24; Moses 1:33; 2:1).
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Ponder how Jesus was and is the Lord of the universe (see D&C 45:1; 76:24; Moses 1:33; 2:1).
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Ponder how Jesus was and is the Lord of the universe (see D&C 45:1; 76:24; Moses 1:33; 2:1).
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The justice and mercy of God will have been so demonstrably perfect that at the Final Judgment there will be no complaints, including from those who once questioned what God had allotted in the mortal framework (see 2 Ne.
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The justice and mercy of God will have been so demonstrably perfect that at the Final Judgment there will be no complaints, including from those who once questioned what God had allotted in the mortal framework (see 2 Ne.
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Hence, we can and “ought to be content with the things … allotted unto [us],” (Alma 29:3), being circumstantially content but without being self-satisfied and behaviorally content with ourselves (see 3 Ne.
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Hence, we can and “ought to be content with the things … allotted unto [us],” (Alma 29:3), being circumstantially content but without being self-satisfied and behaviorally content with ourselves (see 3 Ne.
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Hence, we can and “ought to be content with the things … allotted unto [us],” (Alma 29:3), being circumstantially content but without being self-satisfied and behaviorally content with ourselves (see 3 Ne.
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Their meekness and larger capacity for spiritual contentment may be one reason why God uses the weak of the world to accomplish His work (see D&C 1:19, 23; 35:13; 133:58–59; 1 Cor.
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Their meekness and larger capacity for spiritual contentment may be one reason why God uses the weak of the world to accomplish His work (see D&C 1:19, 23; 35:13; 133:58–59; 1 Cor.
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Their meekness and larger capacity for spiritual contentment may be one reason why God uses the weak of the world to accomplish His work (see D&C 1:19, 23; 35:13; 133:58–59; 1 Cor.
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Their meekness and larger capacity for spiritual contentment may be one reason why God uses the weak of the world to accomplish His work (see D&C 1:19, 23; 35:13; 133:58–59; 1 Cor.
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Their meekness and larger capacity for spiritual contentment may be one reason why God uses the weak of the world to accomplish His work (see D&C 1:19, 23; 35:13; 133:58–59; 1 Cor.
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Significantly, too, the Lord refuses to intimidate by sending legions of angels in order to ensure that individuals do His will (see Matt.
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Significantly, too, the Lord refuses to intimidate by sending legions of angels in order to ensure that individuals do His will (see Matt.
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Significantly, too, the Lord refuses to intimidate by sending legions of angels in order to ensure that individuals do His will (see Matt.
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Let us remember in our age of spin, the only spin God desires is our freely turning away from sin and turning to Him.
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Let us remember in our age of spin, the only spin God desires is our freely turning away from sin and turning to Him.
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When spiritually aligned, a poise can come, even when we do not know “the meaning of all things” (1 Ne.
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When spiritually aligned, a poise can come, even when we do not know “the meaning of all things” (1 Ne.
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When spiritually aligned, a poise can come, even when we do not know “the meaning of all things” (1 Ne.
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However, this spiritual contentment rests on our accepting the Atonement of Jesus, because we “have come to a knowledge of the goodness of God, and his matchless power, and his wisdom, and his patience, and his long-suffering towards the children of men; and also, the atonement which has been prepared from the foundation of the world” (Mosiah 4:6).
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Chapter 2: Preexistence and Foreordination of the Christ
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- Open paragraph (Moses 1:33; 2:1)
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Chapter 20: “Peace, Be Still”
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- Open paragraph (Matt. 14:22)
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- Open paragraph (Matthew 14:22)
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Chapter 4: The Antemortal Godship of Christ
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- Open paragraph (D&C 45:1; 76:24)
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Chapter 42: Jesus the Christ to Return
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- Open paragraph (3 Ne. 12:48; 27:27)
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Chapter 6: The Meridian of Time
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- Open paragraph (Matt. 26:47)
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The following, from the Standard Bible Dictionary, is instructive: “Those qualified to be members were in general of the priestly house and especially of the Sadducean nobility.
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Chapter 8: The Babe of Bethlehem
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