Magnifying Our Calling

Magnifying Our Calling

I want to start with a quote from John Pontius in _The Triumph of Zion_.

"Many times we have heard discussions on magnifying our calling. The question isn't how to magnify our calling, but what it is that we are to magnify. The issue is—what actually constitutes our calling? Once we know what our calling is, we can be led by the Holy Spirit to magnify it. Until then, we may be magnifying the wrong thing.

"It would be nearsighted of us to only view the calling of the priesthood as a series of duties to perform. Our greater priesthood calling is almost too amazing for mortals to comprehend (and hence, to believe). It is that we may eventually become like God.

"A large part of what we are called upon to do may be home teaching and other earth-bound services, but our calling, that thing which we are to magnify through those earthly labors, is not earth-bound but is vast and eternal. We are not magnifying home teaching—we are magnifying our call to divinity by home teaching and other righteous labors."

(Kindle location 2487)