Roots

In Family History, when someone mentions the word Roots every one knows what that person is referring to, your ancestry. Much of the time that I have been on the committee I have noticed that our thoughts have been directed towards serving others, in some cases that may include a ward member or a friend at school. This is following one of the commandments, To love they neighbor. This is amazing! This is another leap towards becoming Christ-like,but what I have noticed is that we are often focusing more on others spiritual welfare more than ours. It is common for us as human beings to assume that we are in the clear, and this is why I bring up Roots. I am going to use this term in a personal perspective now. I am going to refer Roots to Desire. The things that you desire are the things that you will become, " before ye seek riches seek the kingdom of god" My Testimony is this brothers and sisters, we are living in a time that really pushes our spiritual strength, a time that makes me worry constantly for my younger brothers, and requires me to ask for a portion of the lords divine grace on their behalf. Now is the time to be firmly Rooted to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to NEVER WAVER ( Helaman 5:12) " We cannot help others until we help ourselves" ( Dieter F. Uchtdorf)  I pray that we might begin now by becoming spiritually strong and start gaining our own spiritual strength. If we begin with this, the devils fiery darts will have no affect over us. Let us begin now so that  we can take that extra step of serving others truly, these words I say in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

-Derek Childs