I was reading in my scriptures today in 3 Nephi 13. And I came across a thought that I felt the need to write down. Verse 24 reads, " No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." As I read that I realized how true that had been in my own life.
Something I like to do in my spare time is to go slacklining. If you've never heard of it before it's kind of like tight rope walking. You string a line of rope between two trees and try to walk across it. It's a lot more fun than it sounds because when you get good you can do tricks and things on it. But this is just something I really like to do. I've gotten pretty good at it and I can walk the whole line without having help, I can walk backwards and I can even run and jump up onto it. But even the best people at it can lose their balance or even fall off. When you fall you can either fall to the left or the right but you have to get off on one or the other. This is how I felt I had been living my life for a very, VERY long time. That I was trying to slackline my way through my spiritual progression. I was trying to walk this line between serving the Lord and sinning. I had done things in my life that I wasn't proud of and even though they weren't in my life anymore, I hadn't really gone through the repentance process to overcome them. Because of that I wasn't really progressing in the gospel at all. It was like I was walking on this very thin line and sometimes I would get off on the right side and start doing the right things and drawing nearer to the Lord but more often than not, I would wobble and fall off on the left side and continue to make the same mistakes.
It wasn't until I finally started understand the Atonement that I was able to get up the courage to truly repent of those things that I had done and let them go in my life. Having gone through that process is possibly one of the most painful and important things I have done in my life up to this point. I testify right now, that it is not and easy thing to do, to own up to your faults and ask forgiveness. It is definitely much easier to ignore them and hope they go away. Unfortunately though, there is only one way to make them go away and that is by calling upon the power of the Atonement and ask for forgiveness. That experience has made a huge impact in my life and I promise that having the faith and courage to go through the steps of repentance is worth the heartache and embarrassment that results. I am so grateful that I had the trials I had so that I could experience the saving power of the Atonement. I know that it is real and that it works. I know that Christ lives and he can help you overcome any and all sins, pains, afflictions, and temptations. These things I say in His name, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
Something I like to do in my spare time is to go slacklining. If you've never heard of it before it's kind of like tight rope walking. You string a line of rope between two trees and try to walk across it. It's a lot more fun than it sounds because when you get good you can do tricks and things on it. But this is just something I really like to do. I've gotten pretty good at it and I can walk the whole line without having help, I can walk backwards and I can even run and jump up onto it. But even the best people at it can lose their balance or even fall off. When you fall you can either fall to the left or the right but you have to get off on one or the other. This is how I felt I had been living my life for a very, VERY long time. That I was trying to slackline my way through my spiritual progression. I was trying to walk this line between serving the Lord and sinning. I had done things in my life that I wasn't proud of and even though they weren't in my life anymore, I hadn't really gone through the repentance process to overcome them. Because of that I wasn't really progressing in the gospel at all. It was like I was walking on this very thin line and sometimes I would get off on the right side and start doing the right things and drawing nearer to the Lord but more often than not, I would wobble and fall off on the left side and continue to make the same mistakes.
It wasn't until I finally started understand the Atonement that I was able to get up the courage to truly repent of those things that I had done and let them go in my life. Having gone through that process is possibly one of the most painful and important things I have done in my life up to this point. I testify right now, that it is not and easy thing to do, to own up to your faults and ask forgiveness. It is definitely much easier to ignore them and hope they go away. Unfortunately though, there is only one way to make them go away and that is by calling upon the power of the Atonement and ask for forgiveness. That experience has made a huge impact in my life and I promise that having the faith and courage to go through the steps of repentance is worth the heartache and embarrassment that results. I am so grateful that I had the trials I had so that I could experience the saving power of the Atonement. I know that it is real and that it works. I know that Christ lives and he can help you overcome any and all sins, pains, afflictions, and temptations. These things I say in His name, even Jesus Christ. Amen.
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