Warning Devices

Dear family

I hope that you have had a great week.  Today’s message is about things that have been created to keep us safe from danger.  There are many things that have been established to keep us safe from spiritual danger.  Parents, scriptures, the Holy Ghost, prayer, church leaders, and many more.  As we choose to rely on these tools to guide us, we can follow God’s will for us and become the people he needs us to become.

I Love you all so much!!

DaD

Warning Devices

Men have invented certain safeguards to warn us against danger. When I served in the navy, sonar was in its infant stages. Those of you who have been in the service know that sonar is the device whereby we are warned of an impending vehicle or ship or other obstacle. It has a beep, and the operator becomes accustomed to listening for that beep. When it becomes other than the normal pattern, he knows that danger is at hand, and he can warn the captain and the course can be changed.

When I went to school, many young men had white sidewall tires on their automobiles. These automobiles were equipped with what we called “whiskers”—a little metal device that was attached to the fender of the car. As the car would pull in against the curb, those whiskers would hit the curb, rather than the curb scraping the white sidewall tires, and they would warn that the driver could not go any closer to the curb without damaging his tires.

If man can invent sonar to warn against disaster, and if he can invent whiskers to put on automobile fenders for the protection of white sidewall tires, doesn’t it sound reasonable that the Lord would place a warning device within His children to warn us when we are on a detour, away from His pathway? I bear you my testimony that we have a guiding light. It is foolproof if we will but use it. It is known, as you know and as I know, as the Holy Ghost—the still small voice.

Consider the Blessings by Thomas S. Monson