"God is interested in what you are becoming as a result of your choices. He is not satisfied if your exercise of moral agency is simply a robotic effort at keeping some rules. Your Savior wants you to become something, not just do some things. He is endeavoring to make you independently strong—more able to act for yourself than perhaps those of any prior generation. You must be able to be righteous, even when He withdraws His Spirit, or, as Brigham Young said, even “in the dark.”
Using your agency to choose His will, and not slackening even when the going gets hard, will not make you God’s puppet; it will make you like Him. God gave you agency and Jesus showed you how to use it so that eventually you could learn what They know, do what They do, and be what They are."
~Elder D. Todd Christopherson (Moral Agency | 31 Jan 2006)
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Also I want to quickly remind you all that tomorrow is the twelfth. Yep, it's that time again and hard to believe our last opportunity this year to play along with the 12of12 challenge.
Have a great day capturing your everyday. I look forward to seeing your holidays in full swing.
1 comment:
Thank you for sharing this quote. It is right along the lines of what I've been thinking about today.
xo
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