Rebellion101

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Divine Esteem

• Rebellion101

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Ouch!

• While waiting for my first appointment in the
  reception room of a new dentist, I noticed his
  certificate hanging on the wall it gave his full
  name. Thinking hard, I remembered that a tall,
  handsome boy with the same name had been in my
  high school class some 36 years ago.
• Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any
  such thought. This balding, grey-haired man with
  the deeply lined face was way too old to have
  been my classmate. 
• After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he
  had attended the local high school. 'Yes,' he
  replied. 
• 'When did you graduate?' I asked. 
• He answered, 'In 1971. Why?'
• 'You were in my class!' I exclaimed.
• He looked at me closely, and asked, 'What did you
  teach?'

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Elder Holland

• Among the most memorable parables the Savior ever
  told
  is
  the story of a foolish younger brother who went
  to
  his
  father, asked for his portion of the estate, and
  left
  home to
  squander his inheritance, the scripture says,
  
  in riotous
  living. 1 .
• But being caught up in this younger sons story,
  we can
  
  miss, if we are not careful, the account of an
  elder son,
  
  for the opening line of the Saviors account
  reads,
  
  A certain man had two sonsand He might have
  
  added,
  both of whom were lost and both of whom
  
  needed to come home.
• This son is not so much angry that the other
  has come
  
  home as he is angry that his
  parents are so happy about
  
  it. Feeling unappreciated and
  perhaps more than a little self-pity, this
  dutiful son forgets for a moment that his
  faithfulness has been and always will be
  rewarded.
• No, he who has virtually everything, and who has
  in his hardworking, wonderful way earned it,
  lacks the one thing that might make him the
  complete man of the Lord he nearly is. He has yet
  to come to the compassion and mercy, the
  charitable breadth of vision to see that this is
  not a rival returning. It is his brother.
• Who is it that whispers so subtly in our ear that
  a gift given to another somehow diminishes the
  blessings we have received? Who makes us feel
  that if God is smiling on another, then He surely
  must somehow be frowning on us? You and I both
  know who does thisit is the father of all lies.
• It is Lucifer, our common enemy, whose cry down
  through the corridors of time is always and to
  everyone, Give me thine honor.
  Trusting Jesus (Salt Lake City Deseret Book
  Company, 2003

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Important Questions
?

• What (who, where,) is your self esteem,
  anchored on?
• What (who, where) do we hope our childrens
  esteem is also anchored on?

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What anchors you? Im Ok (or Not) because of.

• Family?
• Kids? My spouse?
• The Church?
• My Church Calling?
• Work? Profession?
• My heritage?
• BYU Football?
• My wealth?
• My looks?
• My accomplishments?

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Elder Ballard

• Faith in God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ,
  is the main anchor we must have in our lives to
  hold us fast during times of social turbulence
  and wickedness that seem to be everywhere today.
• Our faith, for it to be meaningful and effective
  and to hold us fast, must be centered in Jesus
  Christ, His life and His Atonement, and in the
  restoration of His gospel to the earth in the
  last days.
• When you know it, that knowledge changes the
  course of your life to a safer one because it
  provides an anchor that helps hold you fast to
  the teachings of the gospel despite the evil
  influences all around you that entice you to
  drift toward sin and transgression.
• Church News, 9/20/1992

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The Two Towers

• Rameumptom Tower
• Zoramites

• Temple Tower
• King Benjamin

• Holy God, we believe that thou hast separated us
  from our brethren
• and we do not believe in the tradition of our
  brethren, which was handed down to them by the
  childishness of their fathers
• but we believe that thou hast elected us to be
  thy holy children
• and also thou hast made it known unto us that
  there shall be no Christ. (No ressurectionNo
  judgment!)
• And again we thank thee, O God, that we are a
  chosen and a holy people. Amen.
• and thou hast elected us that we shall be saved,
  whilst all around us are elected to be cast by
  thy wrath down to hell
• (Also)they despised all men because of their
  poverty, yea, and more especially their
  priestshave cast them out of their
  synagogues 

• Retain in remembranceyour own nothingness and
  hislongsuffering towards you, unworthy creatures
• (he also gave Mosiah charge concerning the
  plates of Nephithe sword of Laban and
  thedirector which led our fathers through the
  wilderness
• ye shall be called the children of Christfor
  behold this day he hath spiritually begotten you
• He shall be called Jesus Christ, the Son of God
• And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and
  will be, forever and ever therefore, of what can
  ye boast?
• I shall give them a name, thatthey may be
  distinguished above all the people
• behold are we not beggars?...I would that ye
  should impart of your substance to the poor

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Elder C.S. Lewis

• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something,
  only out of having more of it than the next man.
  We say that people are proud of being rich, or
  clever, or good-looking, but they are not.
• They are proud of being richer, cleverer, or
  better-looking than others. If every one else
  became equally rich, or clever, or good- looking
  there would be nothing to be proud about.
• It is the comparison that makes you proud the
  pleasure of being above the rest. Once the
  element of competition has gone, pride has gone.

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Catherine Thomas

• Low self-esteem is often associated with feelings
  of incapacity, or a sense of victimization, or
  the realization that we can't make happen the
  opportunities, the approval, the feelings, etc.,
  that we feel we need.
• But our relief comes when we realize that God
  made us powerless so that as we cleaved unto him,
  he could work his mighty miracles in our lives.
• We may think that we or some other mortal opens
  the necessary doors to our future, but this
  conclusion is an error We ourselves do not open
  these doors only the Lord does.
• We give him our obedience, our diligence, our
  cooperation, but he opens and closes the doors.
  We can only make right choices he controls the
  consequences of our choices.
• BYU Devotional, Dec. 1993

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Elder Enzio Busche

• This is the place where we suddenly see the
  heavens open as we feel the full impact of the
  love of our Heavenly Father, which fills us with
  indescribable joy.
• With this fulfillment of love in our hearts, we
  will never be happy anymore just by being
  ourselves or living our own lives.
• We will not be satisfied until we have
  surrendered our lives into the arms of the loving
  Christ, and until He has become the doer of all
  our deeds and He has become the speaker of all
  our words. 
• Truth Is the Issue," Ensign, November
  1993, p. 25

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President Benson

• When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to
  be changed. No man, said President David O.
  McKay, can sincerely resolve to apply to his
  daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
  without sensing a change in his own nature.
• The phrase born again has a deeper significance
  than many people attach to it. This changed
  feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.
• Yes, Christ changes men, and changed
  men can change the world. Men changed
  for Christ will be captained by Christ.
  Like Paul they will be asking, Lord, what
  wilt thou have me to do?
• Finally, men captained by Christ will be
  consumed in Christ. To paraphrase
  President Harold B. Lee, they set fire in
  others because they are on fire.
  Ensign, 1989 

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Whos will should we follow?
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The Challenge

• How do we teach the necessity of Divine Reliance,
  to our children and those around us?

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How about daily affirmations?

• I am in control of my life!
• What I can conceive, I can achieve.
• I can reach my dreams.
• I am enough, just the way I am!
• I have the power to conquer any roadblock in my
  way!
• I can succeed according to my genius.
• Im grateful to be elected while others around me
  are cast down to hell.

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How We Teach
Divine Reliance
How?
What They Know
What We Know
Timid Teaching
Holy Ghost
Confident Teaching
Mixed Messages
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J. Reuben Clark

• The youth of the Church are hungry for things of
  the spirit they are eager to learn the Gospel,
  and they want it straight, undiluted.
• These students crave the faith their fathers and
  mothers have they want it in its simplicity and
  purity
• These students hunger and thirst, as did their
  fathers before them, for a testimony of the
  things of the spirit and of the hereafter, and
  knowing that you cannot rationalize eternity,
  they seek faith, and the knowledge which follows
  faith.
• They sense by the spirit they have, that the
  testimony they seek is engendered and nurtured by
  the testimony of others, and that to gain this
  testimony which they seek for, one living,
  burning, honest testimony of a righteous
  God-fearing man that Jesus is the Christ and that
  Joseph was God's prophet is worth a thousand
  books and lectures
• The Charted Course
  of Education

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What Creatures Are We Teaching?
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Parental Concerns

• But, if my child is humble and trusting, how do I
  know he/she wont be
• taken advantage of
• or less successful
• Or lazy?

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It all depends on your perspective

• Natural Man Perspective
• Powerful or Powerless
• Strong or Weak
• In Control or Out of control
• Eternal Perspective
• Loving Not Fixing (enabling)
• Surrender And Succeed His way
• Meek Not Weak
• Trusting Not Gullible
• Humble Not Lazy or passive
• Powerless And Empowered

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Elder Holland

• She was sometimes called Sally, a widow with
  three children. Perhaps life had been a little
  harsh and she would have welcomed a change for
  the better, the easier, if it came. She thought
  she saw it come when a man, a widower from her
  past, returned with a proposal of marriage in his
  nice suit of clothes and talk of a prosperous
  farm. The prospects of a better life grew, and
  she understood him to mention servants and to be
  a man of substance. She accepted and crossed the
  river with him to view her new possessions
• A farm grown up to wild blackberry vines and
  sumac, a floorless, windowless hut, the only
  servants were two thinly clad barefoot children,
  the father of whom had borrowed the suit and the
  boots that he had gone a-courting in. Her first
  thought was the obvious one go back home.
• But she looked at the children, especially the
  younger, a boy whose melancholy gaze met hers.
  For a moment she looked while a great spirit
  subdued the passions of the flesh and then,
  rolling up her sleeves, she quietly spoke
  immortal words which ought to be engraven on
  every parent or teacher's heart "I'll stay for
  the sake of this boy."
• "Oh, Sally Bush, what a treasure trembled in the
  balance that day," wrote one whose mother was a
  neighbor of the boy. And Sally Bush didn't know,
  when she looked at that melancholy face of ten
  years, that her stepson would someday save this
  nation, heal a generational breech, and become
  the immortal Abraham Lincoln. She uttered what
  should be engraven on every parent or teacher's
  heart, "I'll stay for the sake of this boy.
• That Our Children May Know, BYU Devotional,
  1981

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Finally, the voice of Nephi

• Wherefore, for this cause hath the Lord God
  promised unto me that these things which I write
  shall be kept and preserved, and handed down . .
  . from generation to generation. . . .
• . . These things shall go from generation to
  generation as long as the earth shall stand and
  they will go according to the will and pleasure
  of God.
• We talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we
  preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we
  write according to our prophecies, that our
  children may know to what source they may look
  for a remission of their sins.
• Wherefore, we speak concerning the law, that our
  children may know.