"Or otherwise, can ye imagine yourselves brought before the tribunal of God with your souls filled with guilt and remorse, having a remembrance of all your guilt, yea, a perfect remembrance of all your wickedness, yea, a remembrance that ye have set at defiance the commandments of God?
I say unto you, can ye look up to God at that day with a pure heart and clean hands? I say unto you, can you look up, having the image of God engraven upon your countenances?"
Alma 5:18-19
This is sort of scary, but also a good thing to think about. When we get to that last day and we consider the sum total of our lives, standing in front of God, what would we like to be able to say? I think we all want to be able to say that we helped more than we hurt, and that we improved. We won't be perfect, but God's mercy goes a long, long way, as long as we are trying and working to help others. Today, let's make sure that we aren't going to fail that test. Let's let go of the things that we have done wrong and our bad desires, and let's let our spirits have more of a say. Let's commit to work towards our meeting with God by purifying our hearts, and then using them to make better calls. Let's ask God to change our hearts and to help us learn to love others the best that we can.
As we work with God and listen to him daily, our goodness and confidence will grow, and we will be on our way to being able to look up at God that day with joy and gratitude rather than fear, happy in who we are and what we have accomplished with God's help.
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