Day Three: You Have to Act

Day Three: You Have to Act

Now this was nothing that I really read today, but it was something that I have seen twice this week and today I saw a little lesson that could apply in our lives. The university that I go to has something called an institute of religion. This is a building that the LDS church has built a building where there are many courses from all the scriptures. There are courses on the Book of Mormon, Old Testaments, New Testaments, Modern day Teachings of the Prophet(since we do believe that there is a prophet of God on the earth day just like moses, or Noah). It is a great way to keep everything in line and to have that spiritual boast to you day. But moving on, at the institute I go to there is parking for  students that attend. But like I told you I have seen something twice this week and it has been in the parking lot. I have seen a cop two different times be giving someone a ticket in there. Now I would assume that the people getting the tickets were speeding through campus and turned in to park. But something hit me on how this can apply in my own life.

How it can apply is that, we can not just be apart of the church and find protection. But we must active in the church and more specifically in the gospel. As Christ said " Ask, and it chall be given you, seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be open unto you." (Matthew 7:7) All the invitation he gave were ones of action. Knock, seek, and ask. I'm not saying we work out our own salvation but we do need to put effort in our testimony of Christ. From reading to praying to service and even bearing our testimonies to others. Action seem to always follow with our love for the savior. As we actively participate in the Gospel and church then we will find the blessing we need and a better relationship with Christ and others. 

Day two: Bodyguard and other help is just one step away

Day Two

So I felt that I should continue on to see how the apostles in America continue to act and see what things I could learn from them. So I was reading in 3 Nephi 28 and something hit me about their ministry. They all had alined their will to Christ's and they went forth to teach their people, but as they went through to teach they had many trials such as being cast in prisons, furnaces, and pits(both with and with out animals). But it says nothing could hold them and no harm came to them and none of those things could hold them. And many people were able to hear the words and were blessed. When I thought about it they had so much success and they had so much protection how? How did these amazing blessing come about? It was because they alined their will with God's and so by acting on their desires they acted on God's and thus they were protected!

 I find it amazing that many times in my life I have asked how can I get such help or how can I be able to be guided to do the Lord's will and it is as simple as alining my will with His. To think not my will but thine be done. I know that aline all of our will to God's is a big task, but can we for one day aline our will with his one something as keeping in communication with him all day? or letting someone that day know that they are loved? start with one thing until you have a good handle with it and then add another thing with it. line upon line. 

30 days, That is nothing.

If you can't tell by now I am a christian, a follower of Christ. And more specifically I am a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Typically I tell stories that have help me see how God works in the world around me and how He works in my own life. This is going to be a day by day entry of things that hit me that I read in the scriptures and things that God has brought to my mind. Just a little intro to my beliefs, A a member of the LDS Church we do believe that the the Book of Mormon is another witness of Jesus Christ and is the record of the people in the Americas (the link explains more), we also believe that the Bible is the word of God. We believe that both go hand in hand that the doctrine that they teach and we study from both of them. So when I share scriptures they will be from either of those sources or from both. Also I do be in revelation which is the insight or guidance from God about your life and knowledge about Him  and his son our savior. So I hope that these post will not only help me but will help someone out that is struggling. Because I know that he is there and that he cares about us, I know that He wants you to live your life the best you can. And I know that if we turn to Him, He will be there with open arms. I also know that the only way for salvation and going to heaven is through our Savior and by the price that he paid for our sins and dying on the cross for us.  

I know he loves us all an that we can draw closer to him!