Thursday, January 16, 2020

Have No Regrets} Part One


Good Morning, Good Afternoon, or Good Evening, 
this post should take approximately five to eight minutes to read from start to finish.

I would like to ask you a question and you can ask yourself that question either now or in your free time. 

"What's your definition and understanding about regrets?" This post is based on September 1999 Devotional called, "Have No Regrets" by Richard G. Scott. I would like to share with you some highlights as I was reading the Devotional and I have decided to broken up the highlights into two different blog posts. This post is part one. 

Richard mentioned, ".. You are some of the most choice, righteous, and devoted of Father in Heaven’s children on earth. .. 

Trust the Lord
Do not play games with the Lord. When you trust Him fully, He is able to bless you richly. He knows what is best for you. Sometimes a very clever person can deceive a human being, but none of us can do that with the Lord. Trust Him. Live so that He can trust you. He then can guide and bless you more abundantly. I am confident that the Lord expects each of you exceptional youth to do the right things. He expects you to be pillars of strength in His kingdom.

.. Satan is the epitome of this model of life. .. Be assured that were he to have such capacity he would use it. God’s constant protection of our moral agency assures that he cannot have such power. Satan can have no influence over a righteous individual unless that person yields to temptation or allows fear to overcome faith. 

The devil does have great influence in this world, because individuals make the wrong choices. He is the father of lies. Nothing he tempts you to do will have a beneficial outcome absolutely nothing. The hook may be baited by seemingly attractive promises and outcomes, but he is the master of deceit and his agents are powerfully effective in his cause. 

The heavenly light that sheds forth from God has power to overcome the darkness of unwholesome influences around you. That is as certain to occur as does a brilliant light overpower the darkness in a room. How can you get the brilliant light of the Lord into your life more abundantly? By making consistently the right choices and fulfilling them.
"Never regret anything that has happened in your life, it
cannot be changed, undone or forgotten so take it as a
lesson learned and moved on."

Discerning Between Good and Evil
.. You have the capacity to develop an incredibly sensitive instrument within your own being to discern righteous and evil influences around you. It is done by cultivating the gift of the Holy Ghost. That is accomplished by consistent, righteous living so that the correct choices are made and followed to completion. As you enhance your capacity to sense the direction of that infallible influence in your life, you will avoid disappointment, discouragement, and even tragedy. 

 Currents of Divine Influence
.. Seek, through the Spirit, to identify and carefully follow the current of direction that the Lord has placed in your life. Align yourself with it. Choose, willingly, to exercise your agency to follow it. Do not be overcome by concentrating solely on today and its challenges, difficulties, and opportunities.

.. You lived part of it in the premortal existence. You were valiant there and came here because you wanted to grow more and enjoy greater happiness. What you decide to do now will affect how well that divine plan He has for you is fulfilled. More than that, your decisions today can powerfully affect your children and grandchildren. 

The more closely you follow the current of divine guidance, the greater will be your happiness here and for eternity moreover, the more abundant will be your progress and capacity to serve. I do not fully understand how it is done, but this current in your life does not take away your agency. That right of moral agency is so important to our Father in Heaven that He was willing to lose one-third of His spirit children that it might be preserved.

You can make the decisions you choose to make. A disposition to do right brings peace of mind and heart. Should choices be wrong, there is a path back: repentance. .. As you continue to live righteously, you will always know what to do. Sometimes the discovery of that may require significant effort and trust on your part."

Stay tuned until next time.

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