The decisions we make in this life lead to our destiny in the next life.In Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice finds herself coming to a crossroads with two paths before her, each stretching onward but in opposite directions. She is confronted by the Cheshire Cat, of whom she asks, "which path shall I take?"
The cat answers:
"That depends where you want to go. If you do not know where you want to go,
it doesn't really matter which path you take?"
Unlike Alice, each of you knows where you want to go. It does matter which way you go, for the path you follow in this life leads to the path you will follow in the next.
Our Heavenly Father has given to each of us the power to think and reason and decide.
Each of us has the responsibility to choose. You may ask, "Are decisions really that important?" I say to you, decisions determine destiny. You can't make eternal decisions without eternal consequences.
May I provide a simple formula by which you can measure the choices which confront you.
It's easy to remember:
"You can't be right by doing wrong; you can't be wrong by doing right."
Courage is required to think right, chooses right, and do right, for such a course will rarely, if ever, be the easiest to follow. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal, and self-discipline will surely be required if you are to achieve it.
You are precious in the sight of your Heavenly Father. He hears your prayers. He extends to you His peace and His love. Stay close to Him and to His Son, and you will not walk alone.
Prophets are a Great blessing
Today we have apostles, seers, and revelators, who are watchmen on the tower!! Messengers of supernal healing truth. God speaks to us through them. They are profoundly aware of the different circumstances we members are living in. They are in this world but not of this world. They point the way, and they offer help for our difficulties, not through the wisdom of this world but from an eternal Source.
President Deiter F. Uchdtorf
"Is is our responsibility not only to listen to the prophet, but also to act upon his word that we may claim the blessings of the ordinances and covenants of the restored gospel."
A Clear Voice
Elder M. Russell Ballard
"I cannot stress enough the importance of listening to and following the prophet and the apostles. In today's world, where 24 hours a day television and radio commentators spew forth conflicting opinions, where marketers compete for everything from your money to your vote, there is one clear, unpolluted, unbiased voice that you can always count on. And that is the voice of the living prophet and the apostles. Their only motive is 'the everlasting welfare of your souls'"
Elder Ballard shares a story of a 17-year-old girl who, after hearing the counsel of the fifteenth President of the Church Gordon B. Hinckley, (1910-2008) to only wear modest pair of earrings, "came home from the fireside, took off the second set of earrings, and said to her parents, 'If President Hinckley says we should only wear one set of earrings, that's good enough for me'"
Wearing two pairs of earrings may or may not have eternal consequences for this young woman, but her willingness to obey the prophet will!!!
Hope and Safety
Elder Quinton L. Cook
"Prophets are not speaking just to our own day; they give us counsel that will bless us and our children in the future and through the eternities. If we follow the prophet, we can look to the future with great optimism."
Thanks Kathy for the great lesson. We missed YOU if you weren't there!!!
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