Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Enlisted

Webster's 1828 Dictionary:

1.To enroll; to register; to enter a name on a list.

Quotes:

"Do I need to hum a few bars of “We Are All Enlisted”? You know, the line about “We are waiting now for soldiers; who’ll volunteer?” Of course, the great thing about this call to arms is that we ask not for volunteers to fire a rifle or throw a hand grenade. No, we want battalions who will take as their weapons “every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God. So I am looking tonight for missionaries who will not voluntarily bind their tongues but will, with the Spirit of the Lord open their mouths and speak miracles." -Jeffry R Holland

 “When [we] joined this Church [we] enlisted to serve God. When [we] did that [we] left … neutral ground, and [we] never can get back on to it. Should [we] forsake the Master [we] enlisted to serve it will be by the instigation of the evil one, and [we] will follow his dictation and be his servant.”
-Joseph Smith

Scriptures:

I couldn't find any scriptures so instead I search for enrolled, and commissioned.
D&C 85:And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God, and to arrange by lot the inheritances of the saints whose names are found, and the names of their fathers, and of their children, enrolled in the book of the law of God;

D&C 88:80 That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you. 

D&C 138:30 But behold, from among the righteous, he organized his forces and appointed messengers, clothed with power and authority, and commissioned them to go forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness, even to all the spirits of men; and thus was the gospel preached to the dead.

Song:

We are all enlisted till the conflict is o'er;

Happy are we! Happy are we!
Soldiers in the army, there's a bright crown in store;
We shall win and wear it by and by.
Haste to the battle, quick to the field;
Truth is our helmet, buckler, and shield.
Stand by our colors; proudly they wave!
We're joyfully, joyfully marching to our home.

My Thoughts:

Before we came to earth there was a war in heaven. During this war we were to choose between our Heavenly Fathers plan versus Satan's plan. I believe all of us that are here on earth chose God's side, and therefore were 'enlisted'

We chose before we were even born to be enlisted in a greater work. "To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39) It is not out work, it is God's work, and we are enlisted to do it.

Links:

We Are All Enlisted

 

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