Postscript: What about This Year?
By Linda and Richard Eyre
Authors’ note: This column marks the final installment in the What Manner of Man series. (unless
Meridian decides to re-run it during 2006 — let them know what you
think). We hope you have enjoyed the articles, and invite
you to receive the gift of a bound copy of all 48 of the "facets"
(see note at the bottom of this article) Thanks for participating
with us, and please stay in touch by reading our other Meridian
columns and by visiting us often at http://www.valuesparenting.com/.
All the best, Richard and Linda Eyre
There are 84 chapters in the Bible that directly record our
Lord’s ministry on this earth (the four Gospels).
Try reading a few pages each Sunday before you partake of
the sacrament. Don’t just read — read specifically to know
the Lord. Pause after each verse to ask your own mind and
the Holy Spirit’s mind, “What does that verse tell me about Jesus?
About His character? His personality?
His love?
Perhaps these columns can be the format for marginal notes
in your scriptures (my scripture margins are covered with the
words loyalty, sensitivity, strength, calmness, perfection
and so on).
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.
A few pages each Sunday before the sacrament will provide
another small step in the goal of life and the joy of life: coming
to know the Lord Jesus Christ.
As you finish this series of columns, reflect on the fact
that knowing about the Lord Jesus Christ is not the same
thing as knowing him. However, insights, inferences and hopefully
inspirations concerning who He was and who He is can guide us
and motivate us toward the kind of prayer and the kind of life
that allows us to truly know Him.
May we each grow not only to know more about the Savior each
week, but to know Him better. All our
best — Richard and Linda Eyre
Closing Note: 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
