"What do you love the most?"
President Snow had recognized a pattern that kept occurring amongst the saints of his day, no matter how spiritual the people were, the time would come that once again the world would try and creep into their lives. It happened in the BOM, again and again, it happened to the Saints in Kirtland and sadly the world continues to become part of our lives unless we are constantly aware and staying close to the Lord.
We noted that we can tell who / what we love the most by where our thoughts are and how we spend our time. So we each reflected on the past month and each drew a line on a graph as below where we feel our lives have been in relation to the Lord and the world:
___________________________________________________________ GOD
_________________________________________________________ WORLD
Then we drew a line where we would like our lives to be over the next month. Try it - it can be quite a revealing experience, as we see what brings us close to the Lord and when we sometimes come too close to the world.
President Snow gave us the counsel "We have got to love God more than we love the world." We looked at ways the world can enter our lives and noted some of these as:
Being critical of others / Comparing what we have or are to others / Doing good things but allowing them to take too much of our time
We then considered 4 pieces of counsel from President Snow to help us in our journey to be close to the Lord:
- Keep our covenants
- Build up our own righteousness - DO good things
- When temptation comes, follow Christ's example when he said 'Get thee behind me Satan' - don't play with fire or try to rationalize behaviour
- Keep an eternal perspective - this life is so very short
Sisters, is there something keeping you from being as close to the Lord as you want to be? If so, now is the time to make the change :)
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