Many have asked if it is possible to get all
of the weekly “facets” or aspects of the Savior from this column
in book form. We now have such a book, and we would like to
give it as a gift to you loyal readers who have been with us
for these many weeks. Just send a self addressed, stamped book-sized
envelope (the padded ones are best) to us at 1098 Augusta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108
and we will send you a signed copy. (You will need to put $1.84
in stamps or postage on your return envelope.) Please respond
only if you have been reading and following the column, and
please do not ask for more than one copy of the book. We hope
this gift will help you continue this idea, and that it will
“link” us with as we think about the same facet together each
Sunday. All our best, Richard and Linda Eyre.
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Postscript: What about This Year?
There are many beneficial ways to read
scripture. You can read to look for history, for doctrine, for
counsel; but try reading 84 chapters for clues to Christ’s
character, for principles of His personality.
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Perfection
Christ was perfect not only in the sense
that He never committed a wrong, but in the almost
mind-boggling sense that He never omitted a right.
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Congruence
Christ was able to move in a circle, always
lifting others up: never himself descending or being pulled
down. How He must worry today about those who stay aloof from
the “unworthy” when they might help to pull them
up!
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“In The World, but Not of the World”
Christ was able to move in a circle, always
lifting others up: never himself descending or being pulled
down. How He must worry today about those who stay aloof from
the “unworthy” when they might help to pull them
up!
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Harmony of Opposites
Lao-tzu indicated that if there should
ever appear on the earth a being who possessed all the qualities
of the yin and all the qualities of the yang, that being would
be God. Again,
six hundred years after Lao-tzu’s profound prescription
came Jesus Christ.
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Patience
Peace is preserved only as patience persists.
Christ is the incredibly supreme example here because no one
has ever had more excuse for impatience, yet no one has ever
been more totally free from it.
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Calmness
Jesus was like the eye of a hurricane.
The things he taught (and their friction against the world)
could strike with the force of wind and thunder all around,
yet Christ, at the center, would move in total calm.
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Peace
In physical things as well as in personality
things, there is an interesting connection between peace and
depth. The lower reaches of a great sea are always calm, even
while a tempest rages on its surface.
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Confident Humility
The greatest measure of Christ’s
complete self-security and confidence is His perfect ability
to spend all of His thought and time serving and helping and
changing others, to spend none of it worrying about himself.
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“Seek Ye First”
The true in heart knew that moth and rust
and time would take all their quantities and leave
them, in the eternities, with only their qualities: qualities
gained through the seeking, first, of the kingdom of
God.
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Relationships
Above Achievements
In the entire scriptural record of his
life there is no hint that Christ ever sought an “achievement”
of the world (a thing), and there is no hint that He
ever overlooked or passed by a relationship (a person).
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Families
It
is interesting and instructive to note that God, from all the
titles or names available to Him, chose to have us call Him
Father.
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Eternal Frame of Reference
Christ saw all things in the eternal frame
of reference. Thus those who broke laws, who went wrong, who
hurt Him, who crucified Him were not enemies to be fought but
friends who needed help — brothers and sisters whom he
had come to save.
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Glory
Those of us who are just beginning to know
the Savior can begin to feel His glory as we read His words.
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Clarity and Comprehension
What he said seemed brighter than
the world and larger than life.
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Light of Truth
Christ is responsible for the light our
eyes see, and he is responsible also for the light our minds
see. These two types of light are related: they both illuminate
and they both come from the same source.
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Intelligence
Christ is the most intelligent of all, and he uses
his wisdom and knowledge on our behalf.
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Truth and Love
The thing that sets Christ apart form all
other teachers of all other times was the profound ring of truth
in all that he said.
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Imagery,
Vitality, Power
He
took the common things that all of His listener’s hands
and eyes had touched and wove them into brilliant shafts of
light that pierced the hearts of blind-minded men.
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Understanding
Christ’s tolerance
and understanding enabled him to see offensive characteristics
as sure signs that someone needed help.
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Preparation
Christ underwent thirty years of preparation
before his ministry began — and that preparation
was mental, emotional, social, andd physical as well as spiritual.
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Revolutionary
Uniqueness
He
was content to leave the full weight of his message in the hearts
of a few simple men, knowing that its light and effervescence
would bubble up until it lighted and engulfed the earth.
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Total Example
Jesus Christ lived a perfect life
—
a fact that is remarkable because he never committed sin, but
much more remarkable because he never omitted good.
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Goals and Plans
The plan championed before this world by
the Savior was and is perfect. It is at once both incomparably
complete and incomparably simple.
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Charisma
Close your eyes for a moment and visualize
the Savior speaking to groups of people with such spell-binding
power that the officers that were sent to arrest him simply
become part of the enthralled audience.
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Magnanimity
and Friendship
It is because of Christ's
love for all that he can ask all to love him by loving each
other. And indeed he did ask this.
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Compassion
and Empathy
Where lies complete compassion?
Is it in the love of the poor, the frail, the fatherless? Or
is there an even deeper, even stronger compassion in loving
the sinner, even when the person hurt by the sin is you?
By Linda and Richard Eyre
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Charity
Perhaps Christ, unlimited by
the constraints of time and velocity, actually paid for our
sins individually rather than collectively. Perhaps he did it
one by one.
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Christ
is Love
Before his life,
in most societies, “love” meant friendship, loyalty,
affection for one’s own. The Savior added charity, empathy,
magnanimity. He added the hard, self-sacrificing elements of
love to the easy, self-serving aspects.
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Oneness
Christ's devotion to God was and
is more than loyalty — it is oneness.
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Thy
Will Be Done
His challenge to us, as always,
was to do as he had done — to"do the will of him
that sent me."
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Devotion and Dedication
It has been said that the difference
between great and mediocre men is a cause. A cause lights the
way, propels the mind, and gives color and scope to the otherwise
selfish flatness of life.
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Humility and Honor to the Father
The Lord revealed that only two things
offend God: failure to keep God’s commandments and failure
to confess God’s hand in all things.
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Depth of Feeling
True
sensitivity comes not from learned techniques or from Dale Carnegie
rules of human relations. It comes from true and genuine and
deep feeling. Our Lord felt all things to their maximum depth.
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Gentleness, Patience, Forgiveness
Tennyson spoke of “gentleness, which,
when it weds with manhood, makes the man.” In our Lord
this wedding was supreme, for despite his strength and power
he possessed the greatest tenderness and compassion of anyone
who has lived on earth.
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Extra-Centeredness
The Master's life was a series of windows.
He was totally "extra-centered" or "other-centered"
instead of being self-centered. He came to teach us, to help
us, to cure us, to love us, to save us.
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Poetic Sensitivity
The Master loved all, and loved us all,
and therefore was the most sensitive and beautiful poet of all
time.
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Righteous
Indignation
Christ's anger was inseparably connected
to perfect love. He simply loved people too much not to feel
indignation toward the things that would destroy them.
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Courage, Fearlessness
He walked unwaveringly toward the cross,
refusing the compromise, or the equivocation, or even the simple
silence that might have saved him.
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Mental and Emotional Discipline
Whatever our Lord’s physical strength may have been, the
power and discipline of his mind was even more overwhelming.
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Physical Endurance and Power
By any aspect, the true measure of strength
is the life of Jesus Christ. His strength was total, complete,
profound, and all-encompassing.
By Linda and Richard Eyre
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Week 8 –
Gratitude
Accomplishments,
knowledge, even beliefs make us happy only as we respond to
them with gratitude.
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Linda and Richard Eyre
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Week 7 – Optimism and Positive Attitude
In the Savior's gospel, all things
are stated in the positive: what to do instead of what not to
do, with the overriding positive promise that the sure way of
avoiding evil is to be doing good.
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Week
5 – Valleys and Peaks
Jesus' love for children, his feelings
for the sea and the wind, his constantly helpful and positive
way, his singleness of purpose -- all describe a being of great
joy.
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Eyre
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Week
4 – After-Resurrection Roles
What a joy to know that we are preparing
now, striving to prepare the earth for that day of days when
he will begin his personal reign of one thousand years!
By Linda and Richard
Eyre
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Week
3 – Earthly Roles
The
one thing all men have in common is the light of Christ
– the deep-seated, subconsciously remembered connection
of our spirits to his.
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Eyre
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Week
2 – Pre-Earth Roles
Jesus Christ led and inspired
us in that greatest of all eternal causes, the fight for agency,
and we followed him as a wise child follows a great elder brother.
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Week
1 – Every Crucial Role
“What is Jesus doing now?”
“Taking care of all of us from way up there.”
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Introduction
— To Think More Specifically of Christ
How
do I use these several sacred moments which are set aside for
us to “always remember him?” Do I know enough to
remember?
By Linda and Richard Eyre
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