Priesthood
Leaders are Ordinary People Boyd K. Packer
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who have been called to lead the Church are ordinary men and women with
ordinary capacities struggling to administer a church which grows at
such a pace as to astound even those who watch it closely. Some are
disposed to find fault with us; surely that is easy for them to do.
But they do not examine us more searchingly than we examine ourselves.
A call to lead is not an exemption from the challenges of life. We seek
for inspiration in the same way that you do, and we must obey the same
laws which apply to every member of the Church. We are sorry for our
inadequacies, sorry we are not better than we are. We can feel, as you
can see, the effect of the aging process as it imposes limitations upon
His leaders before your very eyes. But this we know: There are councils
and counselors and quorums to counter-balance the foibles and frailties
of man. The Lord organized His church to provide for mortal men to work
as mortal men, and yet He assured that the spirit of revelation would
guide in all that we do in His name. And in the end, what is given comes
because the Lord has spoken it, "whether by [His] own voice or
by the voice of [His] servants, it is the same" (D&C 1:38).
We know His voice when He speaks. Revelation continues with us today.
The promptings of the Spirit, the dreams, the visions and the visitations,
and the ministering of angels all are with us now. And the still, small
voice of the Holy Ghost "is a lamp unto [our] feet, and a light
unto [our] path" (Psalm 119:105). Of that I bear witness, in the
name of Jesus Christ, amen.(Boyd K. Packer, CR, Oct. 1989, p. 19) |
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