followHIM - How can I come to love service? • followHIM Favorites • Oct 16 - Oct 22

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

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Hello, my friends. Welcome to another Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with the amazing John, by the way. Welcome, John. Thank you, Hank. John, you know the routine. We are going to take on a question from this week's lesson, which is in 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Our question this week, John, is how can I come to love service? It might not come natural to some of us. I know it comes natural to you, John, but to me, I don't know if service is the first thing I'm thinking of every morning. So how have you come to love it? It always gets better once you just show up. Don't you think? Yeah, I think so. And I just feel like you learn a lot at a service project. I like to ask the kids,

so did you look around at the service project? Were you working hard or hardly working? And did you see people who are doing a job and were happy about it and were laughing and were having a good time? It's different because a lot of it is kind of an exercise of attitude, isn't it, when you go to a service project? It's one of those where when you get home, you're always, okay, that was good. Okay, I'm glad I went. We had fun. you're always, okay, that was good. Okay. I'm glad I went. We had fun. Somebody was helped. Yeah. Paul says to the Thessalonians, be an example to all that believe. And then he says later in chapter three,

increase and abound in love one toward another and toward all men. That sounds like motivation to serve, to be an example, to increase and abound in love one to another. John, I love a good service project announcement, right? Make sure you come to Young Men's and Young Women's this week. It's going to be so fun. But we're not telling you what it is. Yeah. And I think another way maybe that's motivating to me now in my old age is because I have been given much, I too must give, right? The way that the Lord has given such service to

us, this is not that hard. I can do this. And I'm not being asked to pull a hand cart across a thousand miles of prairie. Maybe I can do this. Yeah, maybe I can do this. Paul says in Thessalonians 4, 9, you yourselves are taught of God to love one another. Remember what the Lord said to Peter, if you love me, feed my sheep, feed my lambs. And that's all about service. And you don't have to go very far, John, I've noticed. Service can be in your own home, right? Serving your siblings, serving your parents, serving your children. The new Aaronic Priesthood theme, I'll use my priesthood to serve others beginning in my own home, not ending there, starting in my own home, which is a good reminder that to love your neighbor isn't just the guy across the street, it might mean your little sister, right? And your little brother. Yeah.

Perfect. We hope you'll join us on our full podcast. It's called Follow Him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with Dale Sturm this week. We think you'll love what he does with these chapters. Yeah, it's really good. Right now, this is the calm before the stern,

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