My thoughts today are on the ability for us to realise who we really are. The reality of life is this. We are here to be tested and tried to see if we will keep the commandments under the most trying circumstances. Over and over in the Old Testament we read that the Lord is trying his people to see if they will keep the commandments. There are so many times in which we see the children of Israel faltering and even coming out in open rebellion against God. Remembering who we are is critical to our progress in this life. We have to think of ourselves as eternal beings first. I am a daughter of my Heavenly Father. That tells me that I have the ability to become greater than I am today. Because I have eternal royal heritage, I am loved by an eternal being who desires that I be happy. There is an opposite being who does exist and he desires that I become miserable. I am subject to temptation and trial in this life by that wicked being who hates me, hates Jesus Christ, hates the plan of salvation, and hates everything to do with this wonderful body that I have been given because he can't have one. I exist on this earth because I have made righteous choices in that pre-earth life to follow my Savior Jesus Christ. Everyone who is here made righteous choices to follow the Savior. Everyone.
The war continues today and many fall who do not remember and are not conscious of who they really are. They have forgotten. We often forget and are asked to remember every week the many blessings that we have been given when we take the Sacrament. Life sometimes gets in the way and distracts us. We are pulled this way and that when we don't listen to the prophets. Remembering requires that we forget all the little scrapes and bruises that we get in life and focus our lives on the Savior. It is tough to remember who we are if we are apt to become offended by others actions in our pride and a miriad of other sins that help us forget the eternal nature of our beings. The goal is to have charity. Charity is that god-like love that will make us into the people that God requires us to become.
We are constantly in a battle with the Natural Man. It is part of our nature but we can rise above the Natural Man and become more spiritually minded if we try. This is my belief lately that as I watch my thoughts and my actions that I can become more of a saint and therefore look farther ahead towards being a loving being like my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. The trial of Faith begins with the thought. The thought becomes the action and the action becomes a habit. Jesus said, "As a man thinketh, so is he". This statement has profound meaning to me and I find that controlling the thought is the best way to begin to overcome the Natural Man and become the Saint that I want to be.
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