Be Led by the Spirit — Matthew 26; Mark 14; John 13

Come, Follow Me: New Testament 2023 (May 29–June 4)

Have you had spiritual promptings that didn’t make sense at the time? Maybe a nudge to take a different way home or call a friend out of the blue? Can you then imagine the Spirit telling you to prepare one of the upper rooms in your house for a party of 13 people? You hunt down extra chairs and set the table with your best dishes. The Passover menu is lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and your best wine. All the while, you’re thinking, “I must be crazy, why am I doing this?”.  

Then it gets crazier. When the preparations are complete, you’re prompted to go out on the street with a pitcher of water and wait for two men to approach you asking for a room for the Master and His disciples. You do what you’ve been asked to do but feel totally bewildered and while you wait outside impatiently, you begin to wonder what you’re going to do with the extra food and how you’re going to explain all of this to your wife (see Mark 14:12-16).

Then they come. 

Later you learn this was the last supper of the Savior and He chose your house to teach His last lessons. Now it makes sense, but it doesn’t always. Sometimes you just do it, trusting the Spirit always knows best. 

Each week as we partake of the sacrament, we recommit to do as this certain man did so long ago, “…willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them” (Moroni 4:3).

“I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do. Nevertheless I went forth… “(1 Ne 4: 6-7).

“For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way, and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do” (2 Nephi 32:5).