Theme LOOK UP
Connections include:
Constellations = stars coming together = unity
Finding your way
Focus on the Heavens, make it the center part of your life
Wonders of nature & the beauty of His creations, the gift they are to us because He Loves Us
Everyone is a star & everyone gives light
LOOK UP to your Savior for strength
Resources to Support the Theme
QUOTES:
"Help them to LOOK UP to the Savior” - Elder Nelson
Elder Dallin H. Oaks said: “We need to make both temporal and spiritual preparation. … And the preparation most likely to be neglected is the one less visible and more difficult—the spiritual” In other words, don’t neglect to look up. - Elder Adrián Ochoa
“Do not lose your faith because of the people around you, but build a strong relationship with Jesus Christ. Don’t look around, look up!” - Elder Yoon Hwan Choi's father, "Don't Look Around, Look Up" talk
“It is by obedience that we gather light into our souls.” —President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
"We need an ongoing, daily infusion of heavenly light." - President Uchtdorf
“You and I know that you are to be a light to the world,” he said. “Therefore, the Lord needs you to look like, sound like, act like, and dress like a true disciple of Jesus Christ. Yes, you are living in the world, but you have very different standards from the world to help you avoid the stain of the world.” - President Nelson
Connections from our most recent General Conference:
"We live in a fallen world, with distractions coaxing our eyes and hearts downward instead of heavenward." - Sister Cordon
"The God of heaven and earth will help us overcome discouragement and whatever obstacles we encounter if we look to Him, follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost,9 and just keep going—with faith." - Elder Cook
"This peace is a gift promised to all who turn their hearts to the Savior and live righteously; such peace gives us the strength to enjoy mortal life and enables us to endure the painful trials of our journey." - Elder Soares
Connections from Time Out for Women:
What is your super power? Be a Happy Light!
Let God "illuminate the landscape of our individual lives."
Do no substitute the light of the world for the "light of the SON".
The same light you see in others is shining in you.
TALKS:
LOOK UP and It is Better to Look UP talks by Elder Cook
“I focused on how the Lord felt I was doing. Instead of looking to the side to compare myself to others, I began to look up, so to speak, to know what He thought of my efforts.”
He began daily counseling with the Lord ( in morning & evening prayers).
- Tap into spiritual power through daily prayer and scripture study
- Stay true to personal revelation
- Make good choices & move forward
- Trust God & keep doing good things
Elder Adrián Ochoa's talk “Look Up”
"My dear brothers and sisters, if you ever come across anything that causes you to question your testimony of the gospel, I plead with you to look up. Look to the Source of all wisdom and truth. Nourish your faith and testimony with the word of God."
Ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ (Moroni 10:4). In simple words, look up."
President Russell M. Nelson's talk "Choices for Eternity"
"My purpose tonight is to make sure that your eyes are wide open to the truth that this life really is the time when you get to decide what kind of life you want to live forever. Now is your time “to prepare to meet God.”
"During this life we get to choose which laws we are willing to obey—those of the celestial kingdom, or the terrestrial, or the telestial9—and, therefore, in which kingdom of glory we will live forever."
The light we choose to live in now matters now and into the eternities.
SCRIPTURES:
Isaiah 26:40 "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth."
Psalms 147:4-5 "He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."
Titus 2:13 LOOKing (UP) for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Luke 21:28 "And when these things begin to come to pass, then LOOK UP, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."
Nephi 18:16 "Nevertheless, I did look unto my God, and I did praise him all the day long; and I did not murmur against the Lord because of mine afflictions."
Jacob 3:1 "But behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart. Look unto God with firmness of mind, and apray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction."
Alma 5:19 “LOOK UP to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands…look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances”
Alma 37:7,46 "And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls." "O my son, do not let us be slothful because of the easiness of the way; for so was it with our fathers; for so was it prepared for them, that if they would look they might live; even so it is with us. The way is prepared, and if we will look we may live forever."
Alma 38:9 "And now, my son, I have told you this that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn of me that there is no other way or means whereby man can be saved, only in and through Christ. Behold, he is the life and the light of the world. Behold, he is the word of truth and righteousness."
D&C 6:36 "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not." (Look unto Christ & do good continually, verses 28-37)
D&C 88:40 For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light;
MUSIC:
2023 Youth Album
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/youth-theme-2023?lang=eng
Lift your Eyes from 2016 Youth Album
Look Up from 2013 Youth Album
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