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A Story About Why God's Timing Is Always Better Neil L. Andersen · Words of the Living Prophets

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  There were two farmers once who had adjoining fields.
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  The one never worked in his field on Sunday and his neighbor
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  used to chide him about it. He said, your crops aren't doing
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  as well as mine are. Why don't you work on Sunday?
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  The other farmer said, well, I want to do what the Lord said.
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  I want to gain the blessings of the Lord.
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  Then one, let's say, because it's we're in the Southern
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  hemisphere. Then one March day they stood at
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  a fence line. The one farmer said, just look
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  at it. Look at my field.
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  It is beautiful. Now I know you don't have a lot
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  of grain here, but I'll say the grain is tall, the heads are
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  full of wheat, and your field shows little signs of neglect.
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  You haven't tended yours as well as I've tended mine.
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  Look at my harvest compared to yours.
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  What do you say now about the blessing you thought you were
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  earning? The other farmer thought for a
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  few minutes and he said the Lord doesn't balance his books in
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  March. The Lord doesn't balance his
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  books in March. We, we can't help but look on
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  life eternally, can we? We know the Church of Jesus
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  Christ has been restored to the earth with the power of the
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  priesthood, but our challenge is to sink deep into our hearts.
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  And we not only have the New Testament, we have the Book of
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  Mormon, which speaks of his immortal atonement in such a
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  beautiful way. Our challenge is to believe in
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  Him and trust in Him. We are not in competition with
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  other Christian religions, we're in competition with ourselves to
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  have faith in Him, trust in Him, keep His commandments and follow
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  Him. He said if any man I could add
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  in, woman will come after me, let him deny Himself and take up
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  his cross daily and follow me. That's our challenge, my dear
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  fellow believers in Christ. He lives.
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  He is resurrected. Our faith will not be in vain,
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  for he is very, very real. And one day every knee will bow,
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  and every tongue confess that He is the Christ.