“Therefore, verily I say unto you, lift up your voices unto this people; speak the thoughts that I shall put into your hearts, and you shall not be confounded before men; For it shall be given you in the very hour, yea, in the very moment, what ye shall say.” (D&C 100:5-6). The Lord is asking us to put a high degree of trust in Him. Sometimes, it seems an unnecessarily high degree of trust. Why do we have to wait for the very moment before He will tell us what we need to say? Why does God think it’s funny to play chicken with our lives? First of all, everything the Lord has to give us just wouldn’t fit if He gave it to us in advance. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. We don’t have the kind of brain that He has, so trying to hold onto His thoughts would be like trying to fill up a water balloon with a fire hydrant. It’s just not going to work. However, if we wait until the very moment for Him to tell us what we should say, then we aren’t acting like water balloons trying to hold the water from a fire hydrant, but fire hoses - that high pressure torrent of light and knowledge can flow through us and then we won’t explode. The second reason we have to wait for the very moment for Him to tell us what we should say is because we are imperfect vessels. To slightly switch metaphors, if revelation is a well of water, then our minds are leaky buckets. We might be able to move some of the water if the target is close by, but if we have to lug the water far away, not much of it is going to reach its destination. This is easy to see. How many times do we get a prompting to something important but that isn’t completely urgent and so we either forget about it or rationalize that we have more important things to do? Or we are afraid that we will be incapable or insufficient to carry out the Lord’s will. When God gives us revelation, He wants it to matter more than anything else, and the best way to do that is to be knee deep in the middle of the Red Sea with all the Armies of the Pharaoh at our backs and our only option is to put our trust in God because we literally have nowhere else to turn. It isn’t always pleasant finding out that we can walk on water only after we’ve stuck our foot into the Sea of Galilee and tried to put weight on it, but miracles can only happen when there is literally no more room for doubt. We still have the option to doubt God the day before or the hour before or the minute before, but in the very moment, if we open our mouths believing that God will put their the words we need to speak, then there is only room for faith and miracles.
