Peter may have given the best description of the Savior's mortal ministry in five words

when he referred to Jesus who went about doing good.

If you want to know what to do with your life, there it is simply put.

If we are to be like him, we go about doing good.

In Doctrine and Covenant section 81, we are given the same charge with more detail.

Sucker the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

That is a very vivid picture.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

This week we'll be studying Doctrine and Covenants sections 81 through 83 in a lesson

called Where Much Is Required.

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When I think of strengthening the feeble knees, I think of a friend of mine who got some

terrible news about her husband's medical condition.

She hung up the phone with all of the energy suddenly drained out of her as if she was

about to collapse, until two friends rushed to her side to lift her up with their protecting

arms.

I can see my mother just hours after my father died, picking out a coffin.

As she stood there before that box that would soon hold the husband, she was just talking

to yesterday.

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