I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus

Here is my vocal arrangement of “I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus” The original song is found in the LDS Children’s Songbook; which is the suggested song for this week’s Come Follow Me lesson on Haggai & Zechariah 1-3; 7-14. The manual this week references Sister Carol F. McConkie when she said “Holiness is making the choices that will keep the Holy Ghost as our guide. Holiness is setting aside our natural tendencies and becoming ‘a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord’ [Mosiah 3:19]. … Our hope for holiness is centered in Christ, in His mercy and His grace” (“The Beauty of Holiness,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2017, 9–10).

In Haggai chapter 1 the Lord tells us to “Consider our ways”; we could look at how we might value the things of this world more than the things of God. 

• Haggai 1:5-7 5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 ¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

And then in Zechariah there is what might be a summary of the ways that the Lord would like us to be more like the Savior Jesus Christ:

• Zechariah 7:8 ¶ And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying, 9 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
• Zechariah 8:16 ¶ These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

“I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus“, references it’s lyrics from the following verses of scripture:

• • • John 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

“I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus” was written by  Janice Kapp Perry, b. 1938. 

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