You Are a Witness!

Reading:   Deuteronomy 17

Have you ever been a witness - truly testified on behalf of something you had personal recollection of?  If you have to think about it, stop, no thought required - you are a witness everyday of your life and, wether you vocalize it or not, does not matter.  Actions speak louder than words and your existence is a pretty awesome testimony of who you are, where you came from, and the choices you have made.  You are a witness!

Elder Loren C. Dunn of the Seventy taught a great lesson about being a witness (Witnesses, October General Conference, 1995)...

Every person who receives baptism into the Church and has received and felt the confirmation of the Spirit through the gift of the Holy Ghost stands as a witness "of God at all times and in all things, and in all places" (Mosiah 18:9). When partaking of the sacrament, that person renews that witness to take the Savior's name, keep his commandments, and remember him. A person so moved by the Spirit not only knows these things himself, but the Spirit carries them into the hearts of others. This is the basis of the Church's great missionary effort. "For when a man speaketh by the power of the Holy Ghost the power of the Holy Ghost carrieth it unto the hearts of the children of men" (2 Ne. 33:1). 

I'm speaking of witnesses because of today's verse and though it is in specific reference to execution it still opens up the idea of what we testify of, on a daily basis, through our immediate actions and portrayal of being.  Again, you are a witness and need to be aware of that fact!

DEUTERONOMY 17:6

6    At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. 

You, your background, your education, all come under fire when you step on the witness stand but the thing that trumps all else is honesty and sincerity.  Hold true to what you believe and let the strength of honesty course through you.  Not even the slickest of attorneys can rattle you if the impenetrable shield of truth is there to defend.

~Kipling