Testimony of Obedience

Well, my email this week might be a bit more brief, seeing as that I'm short on time. This week has been super hard for me. I'd just like to talk about Obedience.

God has given us a number of commandments that He knows will bring blessings into our lives and prepare us for exaltation. If we are to live with God again we must live in a way that is acceptable to Him, in fact we are commanded to live as He does (Matt: 5:48). "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

God told Moses that His work and His glory was to "bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man", therefore He does not give a commandment unto the children of men save the purpose of it is to bring blessings into our lives, including greater spiritual power, the Holy Ghost, power to resist temptation, and the power to endure all things. As people humble themselves before the Lord, He gives the commandments and as they become more prepared - He gives them higher laws, that in turn, bring greater blessings.

To the children of Israel He gave the 10 commandments, a a subsequent preparatory law because their hearts were hard and their spiritual sensity dull. They had been given a higher law but they proved that they could not obey it. To keep them under control, the Lord gave aproxamately 600 sub-commandments that would keep the people in line, because "the rebelious and disobiedient have more need of masters." And Titus 1:9 The law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient. It was not until much later that they were given the higher law by Jesus Christ, to which the Mosaic law had been but preparatory.

We are reminded constantly in the scriptures of the results of Disobiedience. (D&C 64:36) And when we recive commandments with Doubtful hearts the scriptures say we are Damned : (D&C 58)

The key is obeying for the right reasons (D&C: 64:34). When we use our agency in the way that God wanted us to from the begining, we shall have Him on are side and He will fight our battles for us.

Rember that in keeping all the commandments of God there is safty and sactification by the spirit.
"I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise."

To those that follow the Lord, come those great blessings and joy.
"Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind; and the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land of Zion in these last days."  (D&C 64:34)

That we will all humble ourselves and partake of the blessings of the kingdom is my prayer,

In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.