Come unto Christ

This week, Professor Griffin made me realize something that I had never realized before. I often read Moroni 10 verse 32 as the recipe for sanctification. I always saw that verse as what each member had to do o live the gospel in its fullest. Today in class, I realized that the verse had an important part that I did not realize before. The first part of the verse said " Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness,"  it is interesting how it says come unto Christ and then be perfected in him and not the other way around. Most of the time i seem to forget that detail. I try to be perfect or wait to be perfect before I focus on the Lord. Sometimes I feel like I am not pure enough and have too many things to repent of before I can come unto Christ. With the Scripture I know that I should change direction. I do not have to try to do anything on my own, after all, I can not do anything on my own. The first thing I need to do is rely on Christ and ask him for his help to come to him. And only then will I be able to find happiness and follow his gospel the way he intended me to.