An experience I had some years back connects deeply with my reading of Moroni 7's list of the characteristics of charity.
I was in Elder's Quorum one Sunday Morning and a brother began to share some experiences from the last weeks surrounding his daughter's birth. There were serious, life-threatening complications and his father was on his way to help him administer to the new born infant. To prepare himself spiritually for the ordinance he was quietly reading his scriptures. He happened to be in Moroni 7 and he was reading through the characteristics of the pure love of Christ and the desire to possess them filled his heart. But when he reached verse 48 the full meaning of the verse bowled him over - "Do I realize what I have admitted to myself? I'm not yet a true follower of Jesus Christ? What would it take for me to become one?"
The blessing went well, the baby's complications healed and became a non-issue, but for this brother the question became central to his thought and desire. I watched him undergo what from the outside appeared to be a spiritual rebirth, with a noticeable gain in light and commitment, an excitement over what the Lord was doing in his life on a nearly daily basis, in the quality of his contributions in quorum meetings and his sacrament meeting talks.
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