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🗓️ 26 August 2025
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This week I’m diving into Doctrine and Covenants 93—“Receive of His Fulness.” I talk about Elder Renlund’s message on “Infuriating Unfairness” and the importance of being stone-catchers instead of stone-throwers, share some powerful listener stories about following the prophet, and explore how we grow grace by grace, just like the Savior did. We’ll look at what it means to climb the ladder of exaltation one step at a time, how light and truth fill our lives as we keep the commandments, and why setting our own homes in order really matters. I hope this episode reminds you that you are a child of God with divine potential and that little by little, you can receive of His fulness.
From the manual:
“When you climb up a ladder,” Joseph Smith taught, “you must begin at the bottom, and ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top; and so it is with the principles of the gospel—you must begin with the first, and go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith [2007], 268).
Sometimes that ladder of exaltation seems impossibly high , but we were born to climb to the top. Whatever limitations we may see in ourselves, Heavenly Father and His Son see something glorious in us, something godlike. Just as Jesus Christ “was in the beginning with the Father,” so “ye were also” (Doctrine and Covenants 93:21, 23). Just as He “continued from grace to grace, until he received a fulness,” so also “you shall receive grace for grace” (verses 13, 20). The restored gospel teaches us about the true nature of God, and so it also teaches us about ourselves and what we can become. Despite the efforts of the “wicked one” (verse 39)—and despite what you feel you may lack—you are a literal child of God with the potential to “in due time receive of his fulness” (verse 19).
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.1 | This is Dr. McCovenants 93, receive of his fullness. |
| 0:15.6 | And I like how last week I said I was going to make these really short and to the point, |
| 0:19.3 | and then as I prepare them, it's impossible. So I'm going to try these really short and to the point, and then as I prepare them, |
| 0:20.9 | it's impossible. So I'm going to try to make this shorter. We'll see how it goes. |
| 0:26.8 | This week in Relief Society, we studied a talk called Infuriating Unfairness by Elder Dale G. |
| 0:34.6 | Renland. And it was so good. And there was a part of it that talked about throwing stones. |
| 0:40.8 | And it said this, brothers and sisters, not throwing stones is the first step in treating others |
| 0:47.2 | with compassion. The second step is to try to catch stones thrown at other people. |
| 0:53.4 | And I was so grateful this week for all the |
| 0:56.4 | stone catchers, for all the people that caught stones that were thrown at me and were so kind |
| 1:02.5 | and wrote me kind messages. I really appreciate it. Let's try not to be contentious. Let's buy the |
| 1:09.6 | World of Coke in perfect harmony, or maybe |
| 1:11.9 | buy them a mango Pepsi because that is so much better than Coke right now. If you haven't had |
| 1:16.9 | that, you should go get it. It's so good. Okay, let's get started on the first message that I got |
| 1:22.8 | this week. It was this. Hi, Melanie. Even though I don't agree with you on the vaccine, I wanted to give you |
| 1:29.7 | kudos on doing what you felt inspired to do. It takes guts. So good job. I'll keep listening to the |
| 1:36.5 | podcast. I can't wait for your book. Would it be a miracle, you guys, if we could just live like |
| 1:41.6 | this? If we could agree to disagree, I think we have thrown that |
| 1:46.1 | out that doesn't happen. And I was so grateful for this one message. Like, yeah, I don't agree with you, |
| 1:52.0 | but let's be friends. Kumbaya. And this next one is amazing. It was this. Melanie, I'm so grateful |
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