I ate some Swedish fish.
In fact, I ate a lot of them. They're just SO GOOD!
Unfortunately, that means that the entire bag that I purchased on Monday was gone on Thursday.
Self-mastery, anyone??
Self-mastery is a term I have heard a lot lately. As I began to study self-mastery and self-control, I came across synonymous terms like temperance, moderation, modesty. Then as I studied those, I came across more terms: abstain, cease, refrain, chastity, bridle, the Word of Wisdom, sanctity, virtue.
Everything simply kept coming back to the fact that, without self-mastery we cannot have the Spirit to be with us. However, as we keep our lives within the standards set by the Lord we are promised that the Spirit will be with us continually.
That is an amazing promise!
I know that I want to be eligible to receive all of the blessings that my loving Heavenly Father has in store for me.
Step 1: don't buy any more Swedish fish.
How can you have more self-mastery?
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Eternal Truths, Unchanging Words
An eternal truth is something that is true at all times, no matter what. God is eternal. He is unchanging and we can trust that everything that He speaks is truth. God has spoken to His children throughout the scriptures and, because He is unchanging and eternal, He continues to speak to His children even in this day and age.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is convincing evidence that God continues to speak to His children today because He loves us just as He loved those in the past centuries. 2 Corinthians 13:1 says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." The Book of Mormon is the second witness that is promised to God's children - a second witness of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of Christ's divinity as the Son of God. This book of scripture teaches Christ's doctrine and gospel as taught to the people in Jerusalem. The difference is that it is a different people: those in the Americas starting in 600 BC (the time of the prophet Jeremiah in the Bible). God loves all of His children. He is no respecter of persons and He "[remembers] one nation like unto another." (2 Nephi 29:8)
The coming forth of the Book of Mormon to us today was prophesied in both the Book of Mormon and in the Bible.
The Book of Mormon says, "And because my words shall hiss forth - many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.
The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ is convincing evidence that God continues to speak to His children today because He loves us just as He loved those in the past centuries. 2 Corinthians 13:1 says, "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established." The Book of Mormon is the second witness that is promised to God's children - a second witness of the truthfulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and of Christ's divinity as the Son of God. This book of scripture teaches Christ's doctrine and gospel as taught to the people in Jerusalem. The difference is that it is a different people: those in the Americas starting in 600 BC (the time of the prophet Jeremiah in the Bible). God loves all of His children. He is no respecter of persons and He "[remembers] one nation like unto another." (2 Nephi 29:8) The coming forth of the Book of Mormon to us today was prophesied in both the Book of Mormon and in the Bible.
The Book of Mormon says, "And because my words shall hiss forth - many of the Gentiles shall say: A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible.
...
Know ye not that there are more nations than one...and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?...
Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today and forever
(2 Nephi 29:3, 7-9)
Isaiah prophesied, "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder....And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek shall also increase their joy in the Lord...They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." (Isaiah 29: 14, 18, 19, 24)
The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is the "marvelous work and wonder" that Isaiah prophesied about.
An older woman invited the missionaries in to visit with her. They talked with her, gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon to read and left. After a couple of weeks, Elder Carpenter was strongly impressed that they should go back and knock on her door again to follow-up with her. She again invited them in and, when they asked her if she had read the Book of Mormon she indicated that she had. She had finished it. Soon thereafter she was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. After her baptism the elders continued to visit her. One day they asked her to read something that she had received in the mail. This elderly woman said she would like one of the elders to read it to her. He declined and said, "This is for you. You need to read it."
"Elder, you don't understand, do you?"
Surprised, Elder Carpenter asked what he hadn't understood.
"I can't see to read. I haven't read the words of a book for over fifteen years."
He stopped her and reminded her that she had read the Book of Mormon. Her response stopped him.
"I knew it was true because I could see to read. God granted me that sight so that I could read the book but when it was finished, He took that ability away from me again. Elder, will you please read to me?"
"...the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness." (Isaiah 29:18)
"We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity...[and] will also come to know by the [power of the Holy Ghost] that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith is His revelator and prophet in these last days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the Lord's kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the Second Coming of the Messiah." (Introduction to the Book of Mormon)
Know ye not that there are more nations than one...and I bring forth my word unto the children of men, yea, even upon all the nations of the earth?...
Wherefore murmur ye, because that ye shall receive more of my word? Know ye not that the testimony of two nations is a witness unto you that I am God, that I remember one nation like unto another? Wherefore, I speak the same words unto one nation like unto another. And when the two nations shall run together the testimony of the two nations shall run together also.
And I do this that I may prove unto many that I am the same yesterday, today and forever
(2 Nephi 29:3, 7-9)
Isaiah prophesied, "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder....And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek shall also increase their joy in the Lord...They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine." (Isaiah 29: 14, 18, 19, 24)
The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is the "marvelous work and wonder" that Isaiah prophesied about.
An older woman invited the missionaries in to visit with her. They talked with her, gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon to read and left. After a couple of weeks, Elder Carpenter was strongly impressed that they should go back and knock on her door again to follow-up with her. She again invited them in and, when they asked her if she had read the Book of Mormon she indicated that she had. She had finished it. Soon thereafter she was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. After her baptism the elders continued to visit her. One day they asked her to read something that she had received in the mail. This elderly woman said she would like one of the elders to read it to her. He declined and said, "This is for you. You need to read it."
"Elder, you don't understand, do you?"
Surprised, Elder Carpenter asked what he hadn't understood.
"I can't see to read. I haven't read the words of a book for over fifteen years."
He stopped her and reminded her that she had read the Book of Mormon. Her response stopped him.
"I knew it was true because I could see to read. God granted me that sight so that I could read the book but when it was finished, He took that ability away from me again. Elder, will you please read to me?"
"...the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness." (Isaiah 29:18)
"We invite all men everywhere to read the Book of Mormon, to ponder in their hearts the message it contains, and then to ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ if the book is true. Those who pursue this course and ask in faith will gain a testimony of its truth and divinity...[and] will also come to know by the [power of the Holy Ghost] that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, that Joseph Smith is His revelator and prophet in these last days, and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the Lord's kingdom once again established on the earth, preparatory to the Second Coming of the Messiah." (Introduction to the Book of Mormon)
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