Obedience

Letter dated February 17, 2010

Are you smiling and jumping for joy because you woke up this morning and had another day of life?! Are you extremely happy because you have been given this day to choose as you will? - It's up to you to decide how your day is going to be--- it's all through our attitude and the choices that we make. Two little things called Agency and Obedience..... these two little things make the world of difference if positively acted upon.

I've been pondering relentlessly about the power of obedience and the blessings that come thereby. Almost all, if not every, page in the scriptures gives us a commandment with promised blessings attached if we are but obedient. For example, this morning I was studying in Mosiah 2:22-24 which states:
"And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments that ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?”

Do you see all the blessings promised that we receive if we but keep his commandments? He promises us that:
-ye should prosper in the land
-he doth bless you and prosper you
-he doth immediately bless you and
-he hath paid you

This is only an example of a few of the many blessings that come to those we use their free agency to do good, and are obedient to the Lord's commandments. May we always strive to seek and obtain those blessings that may be pronounced upon our heads through our own diligence to live a life of obedience. I know that our Heavenly Father love you and that He lives. I testify that His promised blessings are revealed and made sure through the power of the holy scriptures, thus included, the Book of Mormon. It is the word of God which testifies of the life and divinity of our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. All those who take heed upon its teachings will be received to those Celestial courts on High, wherein they may live in the presence of our Lord and God. Of this solemn testimony I share whit you in the sacred name of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.