We had ward conference today and the theme was good, better and best. I have often thought about this subject when choosing over one good thing vs. another good thing. I loved his examples of good, better and best by Elder Oaks.
It is good to belong to our Father in Heaven’s true Church and to keep all of His commandments and fulfill all of our duties. But if this is to qualify as “best,” it should be done with love and without arrogance. We should, as we sing in a great hymn, “crown [our] good with brotherhood,”9 showing love and concern for all whom our lives affect.
In my past I have done many right or righteous things for the wrong reasons but the more I do them the more it becomes a righteous reason. So I think of these of the good.
The more it becomes and my heart takes a change, it becomes better and finally when I am doing whatever the assignment with a pure love for the person then that is the best. Not only do I feel it in my heart but I often think that I can feel my heart growing and I know that I feel that my heart is turning to God and trying to do more of the "best" things.
Sometimes i get so busy in what i suppose to do and school, work, homework, amani (work), church callings, visiting teaching, church, reading the scriptures, being Christ like, eating healthy, exercises, etc..... that I lose the fact that I am suppose to be doing it joyfully. That I have to admit that my life is crazy (unmanageable) and I need the spirit with me to accomplish all that I need to do. That what I have planned may not be what Heavenly Father has planned for me. More often then not my life is not what I have planned but more what he has planned.
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