Monthly Message, December 2022
Why I worship Jesus Christ at Christmas and all year:
- I first began to feel about the Christ when I was baptized at age 8.
- I felt I should read the Book of Mormon and began to do so.
- I could not understand it, but I had a strong feeling that it was a true record
- And that Jesus Christ was my Savior.
- My next step up in testimony was when I became a Deacon.
- I had a Quorum Advisor who taught us about Christ
- With tears in his eyes, and I felt what he was saying was true.
- In my teenage years I began to experience problems, and found I could take
- them to the Lord in fervent prayer. I was comforted and blessed.
- As a junior in college, I met a wonderful girl, rejected her because she was too beautiful.
- But a friend talked me into going with her anyway, and I did.
- I married her in the Holy Temple, and we began a family in Christ.
- We were blessed with thirteen special children, and as we raised them
- In Christ, our faith grew.
- We fasted and prayed about many things, which brought us together as we both
- Received answers in the Holy Spirit which, when enacted, bore precious fruit.
- We grew old together, serving difficult missions and callings, but always
- Buoyed by the Holy Spirit and a multitude of blessings and many answers to prayer.
- We served in the temple together, we did home teaching together
- And we struggled together to raise our children in Christ.
- Now she has gone to the great beyond to serve loved ones in the Lord.
- I continue to struggle in mortality, anxiously awaiting reunion with her
- In Christ and in the Spirit world.
- For I know and believe in that great God I worship, Jesus Christ and His Father.
- For they are gods of righteousness. Whatever they do, they do to bless.
- They are One God in that righteousness, and invite all of their earthly children
- To join them in that eternal work of righteousness, blessing others to all eternity.
- Will you join me in worshiping them?
Chauncey Cazier Riddle