The Shifting Beneath Our Feet – Sunday, June 7, 1942
“And Jesus made as though he would have gone… But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” (Luke 24:28–29) There comes a time in the life of every man when he arrives at the realization that the day is far spent. And as the gathering storm and the growing darkness of our day bring with them those events that move us on toward the eventide of which the prophets of all generations have spoken, we are brought almost to fear the passing of time, and yet again, to be inpatient that it may pass quickly and bring us to a better day. We fear change, we fear the unknown, we fear uncertainty, and the future.
We wish that something would stay put, that some step on which we place our foot would not shift beneath us, that some soil in which we sink our roots would not be washed away. But with these thoughts there comes also the awareness that there has never been a time when change was not upon us.
Change is a constant recurrence of life—sometimes quiet, and almost imperceivable, sometimes violent and painful—but always we have lived with change and always we shall. And so we must find our courage and our confidence and our faith in the knowledge that behind all change, and overruling all change, are principles that are constant, powers that are immovable, and laws that are inviolate, and when, in the course of a lifetime, we have found these certainties—these sure foundations which many generations have known but which few have seized upon—the changes of life become merely of passing moment as we move toward “tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”—toward promised events—toward the realization of things which the Father of all men has in mind for His children—toward a time of which “the day or the hour no man knoweth—but it shall surely come.” (Doctrine and Covenants 39:21)
By Richard L. Evans, spoken from the Tabernacle, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, June 7, 1942, over Radio Station KSL and the Nationwide Columbia Broadcasting System. Copyright – 1942.
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June 7, 1942
Broadcast Number 0,668