The gospel of change!

It was such an uplifting experience to listen to women's general conference on Saturday afternoon. I really love how Sister carol F. Mckonckie used Mosiah 3:19 to help us understand the importance of being holy. During her talk, the spirit brought a lot a of questions into my mind which led me to go back to my scriptures after her talk and dissect that verse.  It reads " For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." It especially came to my attention that the word unless rather that until was used. According to the dictionary, the word unless means except if, which I interpret to mean that men are not destined to stay enemy of God forever. We are given the possibility to get out of that state if we use our agency to accept Christ's gospel and act upon its principles. If we truly want to stop being a natural man we would have to yield or surrender to the enticing of the Holy spirit which means we will have to lay aside all of our own judgement and knowledge and learn to trust the spirit of God who's only purpose is to lead us in righteousness. We would also have to cultivate child-like qualities such as meekness, humility, patience, in order to accept the will of the Lord and follow it as a child follow his father. This is the first tie i read this  scripture and realized that all it is asking is for us to sacrifice things that perhaps we love but leads us to a path contrary to that of the Lord. It is asking us to be more holy. What am I willing to sacrifice to be more holy? We all have the opportunity  to choose holiness each day and every time we do, we honor our covenants more fully and come closer to the Lord. We show to the Lord that he can trust us with his will and helps us retain a remission of our sins. As we do this, we will no longer be a natural man but will become a saint through the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ after all we can do.