DAY 5 — CHILDLIKE (Part II of II)

From low to lifted—one yielded reach at a time.

Dear fellow disciple,

Yesterday we paused at the gift—and the challenge—of our singular weakness: the untrained will.

Today we watch what happens when that will is yielded, stretched, trained, and lifted.

Your Singular Weakness — and Why It Is a Gift (continued)

Your will was not given to you by accident.

As scripture teaches, you were allowed to taste the bitter so that you might learn to cleave to the good.

Without contrast, there is no choosing.
Without choosing, there is no becoming.
Without enticement toward one or the other, nothing is chosen.

Your flesh—finite, mortal, limited—is not meant to rule you.
It is meant to be:

Trained.
Aligned.
Consecrated.
Harnessed.

Left unattended, the will seeks carnal things, avoids the pain of growth, and hearkens to disobedience—or to the philosophies of men mingled with scripture, taught as truth.

It sole focus is on acquisitions rather than accessing the Source of all things.

It settles for comfort:
a home,
cars,
family,
vacations—

good and honorable things, yet missing the mark of true worship.

But yielded to the Spirit, the will becomes a servant to the divine nature awakening within you—even the I AM.

The Heart of the Matter Is your Will

The battleground is the will.

It is the one thing you have to offer God.
It is the gift of your agency.

As you hearken to the Light of Christ within you—discerning good from evil, hour by hour—you obey that light and are filled with more.

Light obeyed becomes truth.
Truth lived becomes glory—true intelligence, the glory of God.

When the will follows the Light of Christ, the divine nature enlarges within.

You become a source of good, free with your substance, lost in the service of others—helping them become rich as you are rich in Him.

This is why Mosiah 3:19 opens the door:
the natural man is the enemy unless … it becometh as a child … full of love.

This leads to Moroni 7:48:
pray with all the energy of heart to be filled with charity—the pure love of Christ.

And charity is the way to live Moroni 10:32–33:
deny yourselves of all ungodliness, love God with all your might, mind, and strength—then His grace is sufficient, and you are perfected in Him.

True Worship Is Emulation

True worship is emulating Christ.

It is being valiant in testimony.
Developing His character, His perfections, His attributes.

It is living with an eye single to the glory of God—bringing to pass His kingdom on earth as it is in heaven:

A real Zion.
Where all are of one heart and one mind.
Where all dwell in righteousness.
Where there are no poor among them (Moses 7:18).

The will is not destroyed.
It is redeemed.

From Low to Lifted

Here is where Low to Lifted becomes more than a phrase.

You begin low—not because you are broken beyond repair—but because humility is the only soil where divine power grows.

As you yield to the Light of Christ, you are led—gently but deliberately—to the waters of baptism, under proper authority.

There, the old self is buried.

And then comes the gift that changes everything:

The Gift of the Holy Ghost—
a member of the Godhead, given to be your constant companion.

Not merely to comfort you.
But to teach you all things.
To tutor you in righteousness.
To train your will until it no longer rules—but serves.

This is how power enters a life.

Power Is Not Self-Generated

You may think you can accomplish much without Christ.

You can build cities.
Empires.
Skyscrapers.

But all of it is finite.

You were born for more than the kingdoms of this world.

You were born to become a king or queen not of this world—
a co-heir with Christ, prepared to receive all that the Father has.

It is the Father’s work and glory to prepare every needful thing for you to receive this—but He will not live the teachings of Christ for you.

You must hunger and thirst.

And when you do, you are filled—not with ambition, but with Power.
With the mind of God.
With the Holy Ghost.

Then, in Christ’s yoke—not your own—you begin to develop His character, His attributes, His fruits.

Not by striving.
But by abiding.
Not by self-assertion.
But by participation.

This is how weak things become strong.
This is how your will becomes an instrument for good.
This is how the low are lifted.

Low Enough to Be Lifted

The world teaches you to climb.

Christ teaches you to kneel—and then to rise.
To walk without fainting.
Then to run without being weary.

And in time, to do greater works than He did—not because you are greater, but because you are engaged in His business.

Every true ascent in the gospel begins with becoming small enough for God to be great in you.

That is why everything that follows in the days ahead—
seeing Christ more clearly,
trusting Him amid storms,
living with power,
bearing lasting fruit—

rests on this single, quiet beginning:

Become as a little child.

Postscript

The next several days of writing were inspired by my former About page.

That page has since been replaced—but the witness behind it mattered enough to preserve and expand it here.

You can find the current About page here:
https://lowtolifted.com/about

If these words have stirred something in you, come along for the rest of the series.

Each morning I’ll send the next letter straight to your inbox—quiet reflections to start the day with light.

With gratitude for walking this path together.