“If there is a spiritual lesson to be learned from our experience of that fateful day [September 11, 2001], it may be that we owe to God the same faithfulness that He gives to us” said Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His column in the Washington Post emphasized that “we should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives. It should not require tragedy for us to remember Him, and we should not be compelled to humility before giving Him our faith and trust. We too should be with Him in every season.”
For me, a standout scriptural example of an individual who was steady and committed to God day in and day out was Joseph of Egypt. When he was hated and sold into slavery by the unkindness of his brothers he trusted God, kept his chin up, and his heart receptive. When an immoral woman threw herself at him he proclaimed: “How…can I do this great wickedness and sin against God.” More importantly when she began to physically seduce him, “he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got…out.” When wrongfully cast into prison (for commitment to God) he was humble and put forth his best gift–loyalty to God and man. No wonder when his day came to stand before Pharaoh, Pharaoh would say, “Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?”
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