"Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths."
Psalms 25:4
I was thinking today about how much we are wrapped up in the world--focused on our own priorities, worried about our own lives. And hey, that's totally normal, right? It's life. Except that the whole idea of the gospel is learning to get outside of some of that "natural" part of ourselves, so that we can learn to love God, and love other people, and make *those* things a higher priority than ourselves.
It's tough to get outside ourselves like that, but this verse helps us understand a good way to start. God is the perfect way to get the kind of outside perspective we need, and to really understand why we should even try. It's so hard to see beyond the end of our own noses, and almost everything that matters IS beyond that. Lehi's dream explains to us that the Love of God is most desirable above all things (1 Nephi 11:22), and God's plan of happiness is designed to make our lives much better than they currently are. Part of what is required for that is learning God's ways and his perspective--finding that path that leads to breaking out of our current limitations, and becoming Zion people.
Today, let's go to God and ask him for help finding *his* paths, rather than our own.
Psalms 25:4
I was thinking today about how much we are wrapped up in the world--focused on our own priorities, worried about our own lives. And hey, that's totally normal, right? It's life. Except that the whole idea of the gospel is learning to get outside of some of that "natural" part of ourselves, so that we can learn to love God, and love other people, and make *those* things a higher priority than ourselves.
It's tough to get outside ourselves like that, but this verse helps us understand a good way to start. God is the perfect way to get the kind of outside perspective we need, and to really understand why we should even try. It's so hard to see beyond the end of our own noses, and almost everything that matters IS beyond that. Lehi's dream explains to us that the Love of God is most desirable above all things (1 Nephi 11:22), and God's plan of happiness is designed to make our lives much better than they currently are. Part of what is required for that is learning God's ways and his perspective--finding that path that leads to breaking out of our current limitations, and becoming Zion people.
Today, let's go to God and ask him for help finding *his* paths, rather than our own.
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