I decided to change my weekly scripture to every Sunday night. It will be a great way for me to start off my week, especially if I can get more participation from people (hint, hint!).
This week's scripture is 2 Nephi 10:23. "Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves - to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life."
For me this scripture is about our attitude and our free agency to do what we will with it. We are free to act for ourselves. It is our choice to do whatever we will - be obedient or disobey, serve or sin, be happy or be miserable. No one and nothing have control over these things happening in our lives. To question "Why me?" is to question God and His great plan. When I've had rough patches come at me again and again I know that I've been guilty of asking this question, but as many times as I may have asked that question, I've never once received an answer for it. When I've asked "What does the Lord want me to learn?" is when I have received answers. It's at that point that I am able to find happiness in my trials. I've seen those with absolutely nothing live joyful lives and those with everything they could ever want live life in complete misery. It is our choice to choose and that is God's greatest gift to us.
What are your thoughts?
