What Will Ye That I Should Do?
Yesterday in sacrament meeting a sister told the following story about her brother when he was four years old. They lived on a farm in the country and had a rooster that did not like this little boy. Every time the boy would go outside alone, the rooster would come attack and peck him, even making him bleed. The problem became so bad that the boy was afraid to go outside. One day he said the family prayer and asked God to bless everyone and all the animals except for the rooster. He prayed that the Lord would kill the rooster. But he woke up the next morning to the sound of that rooster and was disappointed that his prayer had not been granted. He discussed it with his father who told him the story of the brother of Jared. He recounted how the brother of Jared had a problem that the Lord didn’t simply solve—getting light for the boats—but waited for this prophet to come up with a solution on his own. He described how the Lord blessed the rocks that the brother of Jared brought to him. ...