The Priesthood

Task: Choice #3 (sections 107):
The priesthood is a power that governs the Lord’s church (the Relief Society is also organized under that power), and priesthood callings call one to perform specific responsibilities of service. How can having the priesthood operating on the earth today magnify your ability and works of service towards others?

The Power of the Priesthood allow us to have the Gospel of Jesus Christ on this Earth. Through the priesthood, worthy men are able to hold callings that help us know the way of how to return to our Heavenly Father. The Priesthood is on this earth to help others. You can’t use it for selfish reasons. Worthy men are able to service others by giving blessings of comfort and to the sick. Also only through the priesthood, we are able to partake of Covenants. That is a huge serve for all of us. It helps us live a more righteous life, so we can return to our Heavenly Father. 

The priesthood allows all of us to hold certain callings. When we are called to a position in the church, we are willing to give it all for others. Through the Priesthood we are divinely called to perform certain callings that allows us to serve one another. By doing this we learn about who we are and who we are meant to become.
There is a quote By Elder Russell M. Ballard, it says “We need to understand the reason for offices within the Melchizedek Priesthood. Priesthood offices are not status symbols but opportunities for service. High priests and elders are equally responsible to serve faithfully in the offices to which they have been called. All priesthood holders assist our Heavenly Father in accomplishing His divine purpose: ‘to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.’” This is why the priesthood is here on this Earth to help bring God’s children unto him, so they can have eternal life.  Elder Ballard continues by saying, “ The priesthood itself cannot be magnified nor diminished. However, one who worthily uses his priesthood in service to others can magnify his calling in the priesthood. All who hold the priesthood of God are joined together in a common bond of service...Each man or boy who holds the priesthood, regardless of his priesthood or his ordained office, is a fellow servant in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.” This is important to realize. We are all fellow servants in the Lord’s work. The Priesthood allows us to serve others. Moreover, as men hold the priesthood worthy in service they will magnify their callings and will be blessed because of it. 

I really like what Elder Ballard said. “From the time one is first ordained to any office in the priesthood, he should be committed to a lifetime of service in the kingdom of God. Young men should be taught by loving and sensitive fathers, bishops, and priesthood advisers that priesthood means service. One of the most meaningful service opportunities you young men will have will be to serve as a full-time missionary.” I love this quote because it teaches me as a wife and mother to make sure that my sons know that the priesthood is a lifetimes of service. When they are ordained immediately they begin that service for the rest of their lives.