Behold the Wounds

Behold the Wounds

President Quinn’s Weekly Message

California Santa Rosa Mission

April 21st, 2025

 I hope you were able to enjoy a Spirit filled Easter. I had the privilege of meeting with Elder Bednar yesterday in a priesthood training meeting for mission presidents, stake presidents, and temple presidents in the North America Area. Being in the presence of a special witness to the resurrection and divinity of Jesus Christ on the eve of Easter was an experience I will never forget. I testify we are led by prophets, seers, and revelators – special witnesses of Jesus Christ.

I wish to share a hymn I discovered several years ago. The name of the hymn is, Behold the Wounds in Jesus’ Hands. Please carefully read and ponder the words of this hymn:

 Behold the wounds in Jesus’ Hands,

The marks upon His side.

Then ponder whom He meant to save

When on the cross He died.

We cannot see the love of God

Which saves us from the Fall,

Yet know that Christ from wood and nails

Built mansions for us all.

Behold the outstreched hands of Christ,

Our Lord, who came to save,

Whose love and grace redeem our souls

And lift us from the grave.

Though bruised and battered as we stray,

His guiding hands caress.

He washes and annoints with oil;

Then in His arms we rest.

Behold the wounds in Jesus’ hands.

Look to your Lord and live.

He yearns to bless you with His love

And all your sins forgive.

Oh, empty is the heart of man

When it is filled with sin.

Come, open wide your broken heart

And let your Savior in!

Behold His wounded hands and feet!

Come touch, and see, and feel

The wounds and marks that you may know

His love for you is real.

Then as you fall to worship Him

And wash His feet in tears,

Your Savior takes you in his arms

And quiets all your fears.

I love the tender truths beautifully taught in the verses of this hymn. I add my testimony that Jesus Christ lives. I testify He rose on the third day from the tomb. He is our loving Savior and Redeemer. His love for us is most powerfully witnessed in the wounds He still carries for us. I know that one day our resurrected Savior will extend to each of us the same invitation given to the people here on the American continent:

“Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.” (3 Nephi 11:14)

He is risen…it is true!

Love,

President Quinn

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