Week 10 - Sign Seeking and Lusting

Justine Sanders

11-28-11

FDREL 324

Kelly Anderson

Student Choice #1

(Week 10)

Sign Seeking and Lusting

What do you learn about sign seeking?

• From reading Section 63 I’ve learned that those who seek for signs aren’t faithful and they don’t trust in the Lord as much as they should. But, those who are faithful and humble will receive the signs they seek in the Lord’s time, and will not have to seek for signs.

What do you learn about lusting?

• I’ve learned that lust comes when people are more concerned about their physical appetite then they are of other people’s needs and desires. Lusting is far from god-like and is very discouraged by the Lord.

How is the spirit of adultery (lusting) related to the spirit of sign seeking?

• The great relation between lusting and sign seeking is that they are both of the devil. There is a lack of trust in the Lord and also a lack of humility and faith.

• I also believe that there are those people out there who try to find signs and proof that the Lord exists, and when they can’t find that proof, then they turn and live their life fill of lust or find other religions to base their beliefs in, because they are too proud to give the Lord the time he needs.

The Savior taught that a “wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign” (Mathew 16:4).

How is the spirit of lusting and spirit of sign seeking similar?

• 1. When seeking for a sign, there is a lack of faith; just as it is with lust.

• 2. When you’re lusting, you’re searching for the best of everything. Seeking for a sign is searching for the best proof that the Lord exists.

• 3. Another similarity is that with these two things, you’re always searching. You’re never fully satisfied.

• 4. When seeking for these two things, someone will always be hurt.

• 5. These two things are of the devil and will never bring true happiness.

Three insights that Elder Holland gives into this topic.

• “Most people in trouble end up crying, “What was I thinking?” Well, whatever they were thinking, they weren’t thinking of Christ.”

• “Most days we all find ourselves assaulted by immoral messages of some kind flooding in on us from every angle.”

• We need to try with all our might to fight lust and sign seeking. We need to have faith in ourselves and in the Lord.