What is Truth?

We live in a world that believes that it has most of the answers to questions such as how life began and how big and old our universe is. Much of this truth has no room for God. Those advocating these truths portray themselves as rational and factual ones and those of us who strive to hang on to the old truths about God and religion are portrayed as deluded or living a fairy-tale.

Here in Mexico, doing the work of the Lord, I have come down a very different path. Daily experiences feeling the guiding hand of the Lord and sensing his Spirit as I serve his missionaries and his children have taught me that he exists. More than that, he is very actively involved in all our lives because of his patient and long-suffering love for us. He takes us as we are and loves as we are and gently tugs us down a path that will lead us to real happiness if only we will listen. He is a perfect Father, knowing exactly what is best for us, his children. He is not judgmental but kind and very attentive to each of us personally. I have felt this love in my own life. I have seen it in the lives of those I come into contact with. It is for me as undeniable as the rising of the sun in the morning. The unchanging and undeniable truth is that God exists.

For example, I prayed this morning that the Lord would help me to do the things that he wanted me to do and to say the things that he wanted me to say. My eyes and heart were opened as I sought to follow the words of my prayer. I gave four blessings today to people who were sick or who needed comfort and guidance. In each of these blessings the words that I was to say came to my mind clearly and as I pronounced them I felt the certainty of the Lord’s approbation through a feeling of joy or a burning in my heart. I had used his priesthood in accordance with his will.