"And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received—
Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation.
And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all.
And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I have written—"
Doctrine and Covenants 84:54-57
These are some good reminders, that we need to take the things of God seriously, and work to keep the commandments and to do God's will... especially in this case reading the scriptures and actually doing what God asks rather than just saying the right things. :)
It's interesting that God tells us here that that is why our minds have been darkened... it seems, like so many other things in the scriptures, to be a natural consequence of our actions rather than some arbitrary punishment, and I think it really applies to a lot of things. If we don't apply ourselves to anything that we care about, like playing the piano, then we can lose the skill, and sometimes not even remember the things that we learned in the past. When we blow things off, then we lose them.
We could probably all learn a little bit more about actually doing what we say and living our beliefs. Today, let's learn what God asks us to learn, and let's take it seriously, and work on building a relationship with God, and making ourselves into the people that God can help us become.
Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation.
And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all.
And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I have written—"
Doctrine and Covenants 84:54-57
These are some good reminders, that we need to take the things of God seriously, and work to keep the commandments and to do God's will... especially in this case reading the scriptures and actually doing what God asks rather than just saying the right things. :)
It's interesting that God tells us here that that is why our minds have been darkened... it seems, like so many other things in the scriptures, to be a natural consequence of our actions rather than some arbitrary punishment, and I think it really applies to a lot of things. If we don't apply ourselves to anything that we care about, like playing the piano, then we can lose the skill, and sometimes not even remember the things that we learned in the past. When we blow things off, then we lose them.
We could probably all learn a little bit more about actually doing what we say and living our beliefs. Today, let's learn what God asks us to learn, and let's take it seriously, and work on building a relationship with God, and making ourselves into the people that God can help us become.
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