What is it?
Over and over again, we are told that our salvation is not collective, but individual. We cannot gain eternal glory because our parents, friends, or family were valiant in their second estate. We will not be judged as a group, but as individuals.
So the big question always comes up, what is it that we need to do? According to the scriptures we need to walk uprightly before the Lord, keep His commandments, endure to the end, magnify our callings, move forward in faith, bare personal testimony and stuff like that. This is all pretty straight forward.
My concern is, what if we don't know what it means to walk uprightly? What if we don't know His commandments? Or how to endure or what that means etc...? Am I making sense? We cannot just say that we are doing it. We have to do it. We have to understand what it is that the Lord is asking of us. Going to church is not enough. Reading the scriptures is not enough. We must make it all part of our lives.
If we go to church on Sunday, but are there to just socialize, draw, text, play games, or get candy, it does us know good. We need to learn, study, prepare, and truly understand why we partake of the Sacrament. We need to know our beliefs. We need to know our limits and what is expected of us as a son or daughter of God. Because we are all different, our strengths and weakness will be tested differently. The expectations for one will appear to be different from another. We need to know individually.
So the big question always comes up, what is it that we need to do? According to the scriptures we need to walk uprightly before the Lord, keep His commandments, endure to the end, magnify our callings, move forward in faith, bare personal testimony and stuff like that. This is all pretty straight forward.
My concern is, what if we don't know what it means to walk uprightly? What if we don't know His commandments? Or how to endure or what that means etc...? Am I making sense? We cannot just say that we are doing it. We have to do it. We have to understand what it is that the Lord is asking of us. Going to church is not enough. Reading the scriptures is not enough. We must make it all part of our lives.
If we go to church on Sunday, but are there to just socialize, draw, text, play games, or get candy, it does us know good. We need to learn, study, prepare, and truly understand why we partake of the Sacrament. We need to know our beliefs. We need to know our limits and what is expected of us as a son or daughter of God. Because we are all different, our strengths and weakness will be tested differently. The expectations for one will appear to be different from another. We need to know individually.
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