Dear
Sisters,
Do you ever have moments when you want to be better than you have ever been? Those feelings may be triggered by seeing a person or a family member living in a way that lifts your heart with a yearning to live that way, too. Or maybe it can come from reading a book, listening to a conference talk, listening to music, studying your scriptures. For me, it has come in all those ways, and more.
Hopefully you have had these impressions in your life. You may have felt a tug, maybe many tugs, to be someone better. And what sets those yearnings apart from all your daydreams is that they were not about being richer, or smarter, or more attractive, but about being better. David O McKay once said, "Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite... There is something within him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world."
That pull upward is far beyond what you would call a desire for self-improvement. What you have felt is an urging from your Heavenly Father to accept this invitation: "Yea, Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot." (Moroni 10:32-33)
That urge to rise above yourself is a recognition of your need for the Atonement to work in your life, and your need to be sure it's working. After all we can do, after all your effort, we need the confidence that the Atonement is working for you and on you.
Specific steps to assure that the Atonement is at work in your life will not always be the same. However, there are some constants. You can invite the companionship of the Holy Ghost. It is a cleansing agent as the Atonement purifies you. Marion G. Romney taught: " Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sun sin-sick soul." That is a fact you can act on with confidence. And when he is your companion, you can be assured that the Atonement is working in your life.
I would like to encourage you to make some choices today or this week that will bring the Holy Ghost to you as your companion. I bear my testimony that you can invite the Holy Ghost into your life and he will come. That yearning that we have felt for something better is a yearning to come unto Christ. Don't ignore the impulses that come to you.
Thank you all for your wonderful examples that urge me to be better.
Love, Krishaun Player
Do you ever have moments when you want to be better than you have ever been? Those feelings may be triggered by seeing a person or a family member living in a way that lifts your heart with a yearning to live that way, too. Or maybe it can come from reading a book, listening to a conference talk, listening to music, studying your scriptures. For me, it has come in all those ways, and more.
Hopefully you have had these impressions in your life. You may have felt a tug, maybe many tugs, to be someone better. And what sets those yearnings apart from all your daydreams is that they were not about being richer, or smarter, or more attractive, but about being better. David O McKay once said, "Man is a spiritual being, a soul, and at some period of his life everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite... There is something within him to rise above himself, to control his environment, to master the body and all things physical and live in a higher and more beautiful world."
That pull upward is far beyond what you would call a desire for self-improvement. What you have felt is an urging from your Heavenly Father to accept this invitation: "Yea, Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God. And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot." (Moroni 10:32-33)
That urge to rise above yourself is a recognition of your need for the Atonement to work in your life, and your need to be sure it's working. After all we can do, after all your effort, we need the confidence that the Atonement is working for you and on you.
Specific steps to assure that the Atonement is at work in your life will not always be the same. However, there are some constants. You can invite the companionship of the Holy Ghost. It is a cleansing agent as the Atonement purifies you. Marion G. Romney taught: " Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sun sin-sick soul." That is a fact you can act on with confidence. And when he is your companion, you can be assured that the Atonement is working in your life.
I would like to encourage you to make some choices today or this week that will bring the Holy Ghost to you as your companion. I bear my testimony that you can invite the Holy Ghost into your life and he will come. That yearning that we have felt for something better is a yearning to come unto Christ. Don't ignore the impulses that come to you.
Thank you all for your wonderful examples that urge me to be better.
Love, Krishaun Player
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