Choosing
a Wife Bruce R. McConkie
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How
do you choose a wife? I've heard a lot of young people from Brigham
Young University and elsewhere say, "I've got to get a feeling
of inspiration. I've got to get some revelation. I've got to fast and
pray and get the Lord to manifest to me whom I should marry." Well,
maybe it will be a little shock to you, but never in my life did I ever
ask the Lord whom I ought to marry. It never occurred to me to ask him.
I went out and found the girl I wanted; she suited me; I evaluated and
weighed the proposition, and it just seemed a hundred percent to me
as though this ought to be. Now, if I'd done things perfectly, I'd have
done some counseling with the Lord, which I didn't do; but all I did
was pray to the Lord and ask for some guidance and direction in connection
with the decision that I'd reached. A more perfect thing to have done
would have been to counsel with him relative to the decision and get
a spiritual confirmation that the conclusion, which I by my agency and
faculties had arrived at, was the right one. (Bruce R. McConkie, "Agency or Inspiration," The New Era, Jan. 1975, p. 40) |
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1 Nephi 1-7 |
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