What are your first thoughts when you hear the word "journey?" A long road trip? A walk through the woods? A wilderness? Riding a camel?
Chances are, when you think of a journey your thoughts don't automatically go to a quick, pain free happy ending. Me either! I see a long road with bumps and bends. I imagine a road that is fun to travel despite the hard things. I imagine a road that leads to a place that is worth every step of the way.
LIFE is just like that! This may be news to you, but it isn't a pain free ordeal. However, it is worth every step!
Our journey didn't start when we were born, but much before that. President Uchtdorf said:
"At the beginning of [your] story, you lived in a faraway, beautiful place...
Back in that first estate, you knew with absolute certainty that God existed because you saw and heard Him. You knew Jesus Christ, who would become the Lamb of God. You had faith in Him.
And you knew that your destiny was not to stay in the security of your premortal home.
As much as you loved that eternal sphere, you knew you wanted and needed to embark on a journey.
"You would depart from the arms of your Father, pass through a veil of forgetfulness,
receive a mortal body, and learn and experience things that hopefully would
help you grow to become more like Father in heaven and return to His presence"
And here we are! Trying our best to become more like our Heavenly Father.
So much depends on our use of a gift Heavenly Father has given us called agency. We are here to choose "liberty and eternal life through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death according to the captivity and power of the devil" (2 Nephi 2:27).
How do you "choose eternal life?"
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