Saturday, January 21, 2017
Are your desires God's will?
In Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 we read " I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise." That scripture has always been one of my favorite scriptures but I did not get to truly savor it until this week when I set a goal to attend the temple weekly. Since I have started my first semester, I have been making excuses not to go to the house of the Lord. Note that I used the word excuses because being in Provo with temples so close to me, there really are no reasons why I should not be at the temple often. So, since I know that the temple is literally the house of the Lord where I could feel his peace, love and spirit, I set a goal to go there weekly. At first, I thought that the goal was too demanding so I tried to change it to once every two weeks. However, as I prayed, this overwhelming feeling came to me and reassured me that it was possible to attend the temple weekly. So, obeying the spirit of truth, I prayed and asked the Lord to help me to have a desire to go to his house no matter what. Two days later, one of my friends confessed to me that she also wanted to go to the temple and asked me to be her temple buddy every week. As the words came out of her mouth, I smiled and accepted her offer. It could not have been a coincidence. The Lord gave me a temple buddy so I could be motivated and accountable to someone else. I know that the Lord rejoice in our righteous desires. The Lord does not grant me a lot of the worldly things that I wish for, because no matter how much I want them, he knows what is best for me. However, whenever I asked him to help me with my spiritual growth, he moves mountains for those things to happen. I know that the Lord at this particular time wants me to focus on going to his house. He makes everything work out so I could do so... The Lord loves me and will give me anything that I want, as long as it is righteous. I know that as I pray with faith to better my spiritual life, His will will become my will until I return to live with him again.
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"The Lord loves me and will give me anything that I want, as long as it is righteous." Such a powerful and truthful sentence! Last Testimony Sunday, as I was praying during Sacrament, the Spirit was so strong as he whispered to me that I must go to the temple before the 31st to do my daughter's and mom's work. I was also prompted to go up and give this testimony, which I did. Sister Sheppard volunteered to come with me and last Tuesday evening, we did Jasmine's initiatories and other family members as well. Since the endowment session had started already, the temple workers gave us initiatory cards and we did the work. It will be one year in March since mom passed on, so I wil return to do her work as well. In the meantime I am planning to go to the temple this week for Jasmine's and my grandmother's endowment as well as my dad's and my grandfather's. So, your blog came as no suprise or coincidence. It is more of a GODcidence. Je t'aime soeur Clément et merci pour partager tes pensées avec nous!! Bonne semaine,
ReplyDeleteMary-Lynne Courteau xxx
oh my!!!! Thank you so much for reading the blog!!! I miss you and was always amazed at the woman that you are! I am so glad to hear that you continue to go through the temple. The temple truly make it possible for our family to be eternal. There is such comfort in knowing that nothing can separate us from our love ones. Not even death! Je t'aime aussi Mary-Lynne et je prie pour toi. allez au temple souvent parce que la beaucoup ne choses nous sont revelee et la puissance du Seigneur nous accompagne et nous aide a rester fideles! un gros calin!
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