This week’s BYU-Idaho devotional speaker, Elder Kyle S. McKay, a general authority seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, talked about how best we can maintain Christ as our center, and the ways Satan can dissuade us from that ideal.
“God does not give us doubts, nor is He the author of error,” Elder McKay said. “But He allows them because it is absolutely critical that you and I choose for ourselves to believe or not to believe.”
Elder McKay reminded students that “God’s ways are higher than our ways,” and “His thoughts than our thoughts,” and that one of Satan’s key tactics lay in misconstruing that idea. We as men, however, are fallible, he said, yet despite our foibles, God entrusts us with His work.
He shared a teaching from President Wilford Woodruff, who said in 1890, "The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as President of this Church to lead you astray ... If I were to attempt that, the Lord would remove me out of my place.”
He did explain people, all people, still make mistakes, and God entrusts people anyway.
“So, what do we do with error? You can’t hide or hide from the humanness of humans. But it is equally unproductive to seek out error and wallow in it by making it an emphasis of study. You will never come to know and understand the truths of God by studying the errors of man,” he said.
In an interview with BYU-Idaho Radio, Elder McKay emphasized that we always look to Jesus Christ because He is the one who is perfect.
“It was said of the Jews of old that they looked beyond the mark and the mark is Jesus Christ and the Jews were looking for something else, someone else. Sometimes we can stop short of the mark. Here’s what that sounds like: ‘I know The Book of Mormon is true.’ The Book of Mormon is not the mark: Jesus Christ is the mark, and so if you know The Book of Mormon is true, then you can, and I would argue you must testify that Jesus is the Christ, for for that intent was the book written,” he said.