Never Leave Him

I love these words from a favorite hymn:

The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose

I will not, I cannot, desert to his foes;

That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,

I’ll never, no never, I’ll never, no never,

I’ll never, no never, no never forsake!37

Perfection does not come in this life, but we exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and keep our covenants. President Monson has promised, “Your testimony, when constantly nourished, will keep you safe.”38 We push our spiritual roots deep, feasting daily on the words of Christ in the scriptures. We trust in the words of living prophets, placed before us to show us the way. We pray and pray and listen to the quiet voice of the Holy Ghost that leads us along and speaks peace to our soul. Whatever challenges arise, we never, never leave Him.

The Savior asked His Apostles, “Will ye also go away?”39

Peter answered:

“Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.

“ . . . We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”40

I too have that witness. I so testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


Notes

  1. Mark 13:33.
  2. Doctrine and Covenants 46:8.
  3. Doctrine and Covenants 42:76.
  4. 2 Peter 3:17.
  5. John 6:66.
  6. John 6:67.
  7. Matthew 26:22.
  8. 3 Nephi 9:14.
  9. Matthew 22:37.
  10. Mark 8:34.
  11. Matthew 18:3; see also Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17; 3 Nephi 9:22; 11:37–38.
  12. Mosiah 3:19.
  13. See Alma 5:14.
  14. John 6:61.
  15. Matthew 13:21.
  16. See David A. Bednar, “And Nothing Shall Offend Them,” Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2006, 89–92.
  17. Joseph Smith, in Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, ed. Parley P. Pratt Jr. (1938), 118.
  18. In History of the Church, 3:46, footnote.
  19. Frederick G. Williams, “Frederick Granger Williams of the First Presidency of the Church,” BYU Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (1972): 261.
  20. 1 Nephi 8:24.
  21. 1 Nephi 11:25.
  22. 1 Nephi 8:12.
  23. 1 Nephi 8:26–27; see also verse 33.
  24. See 1 Nephi 11:35–36; 12:18–19.
  25. 1 Nephi 8:33.
  26. 1 Nephi 8:28; emphasis added.
  27. President Boyd K. Packer said, “Largely because of television [and the Internet], instead of looking over into that spacious building, we are, in effect, living inside of it” (“Finding Ourselves in Lehi’s Dream,” Liahona, Aug. 2010, 29; Ensign, Aug. 2010, 23).
  28. In the same talk, President Thomas S. Monson said, “The great and spacious building in Lehi’s vision represents those in the world who mock God’s word and who ridicule those who embrace it and who love the Savior and live the commandments” (“May You Have Courage,” Liahona and Ensign, May 2009, 126).
  29. 1 Nephi 8:33.
  30. 2 Timothy 1:7–8.
  31. From personal conversation and from a translated excerpt of an oral history by Alexander Davydov, recorded July 16, 2010.
  32. John 14:15.
  33. Doctrine and Covenants 82:3.
  34. Moses 3:17.
  35. See 1 Nephi 19:9.
  36. See 2 Nephi 28:20.
  37. “How Firm a Foundation,” Hymns, no. 85.
  38. Thomas S. Monson, Liahona and Ensign, May 2009, 126.
  39. John 6:67.
  40. John 6:68–69.
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