Don't get wrapped up

Imagine holding onto one link of a 30 foot long chain. Each link will represent a thing we are asked not to do. Now that link you hold onto is the one of those things that you are choosing hold onto and keep for yourself. as you continue to hold onto this link and go around doing whatever it is you are doing, hopefully trying to do good, the rest of the chain will slowly start to wrap around you. Eventually, you will be so tangled up in this chain until we are wrapped in all 30 feet of it making it impossible to move!

Imagine, if you dropped that chain link in the very beginning instead of holding onto it for so long! You wouldnt be dealing with all of the other sins that tag a long with holding onto one seemingly harmless thing! So before you get wrapped up, drop what you have and FREE  YOURSELF!

You can CHOOSE to drop that chain! Sterling W. Sill once stated “Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. … God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong”

We have agency, we have the choice to be free or to give Satan power over us! Let us all remember to drop the chain before it consumes us and BE FREE!

Get in tune!

I was born with the ability and keen ear to play musical instruments. Almost any one of them, put it in front of me and I will play a basic song. I know how the song is supposed to sound and whether the instrument I am playing is in tune or not.



The Lord asks us to be instruments in his hands. He is an expert "musician" when it comes to playing any song, or in this case guiding us to lead the best lives we can. He does everything he can to play the right notes in our lives. But if we are not in tune with the spirit, we will be an out of tune instrument in his hands! An instrument that is in tune can create beautiful sounds and tones that when strung together, make ear-pleasing music. But when an instrument is out of tune, it is not only frustrating for all who are listening to the song, but for the musician as well! So not only do all those we come in contact with notice, but Heavenly Father especially does. He could be playing all the right notes, but if the instrument isn't in tune, it won't be pretty! So we have to get in tune! on our own, we can't really tune ourselves without a basis on what sounds we need to make, or what we need to do in life. That's why we need a spiritual tuning fork!



What a tuning fork does, is when you hit it on something, it makes a noise. That noise is a note in perfect tune. When tuning an instrument, the musician will play the tuning fork and play that not on the instrument at the same time and tune the instrument so that the note sounds exactly like the note from the tuning fork. We are lucky enough in our time to have our own tuning forks for all of the different aspects of our lives. Those are the scriptures! We can read them to know how to live our lives and what we need to change to be more in tune with the standards God wants us to live. And when we do tune ourselves, we will be effective instruments in the hands of our Heavenly Father.

Mosiah 23:10

"Nevertheless, after much tribulation, the Lord did hear my cries, and did answer my prayers, and has made me an instrument in his hands in bringing so many of you to a knowledge of his truth."

Hot or Cold?

Imagine, relaxing in a scorching hot tub after a nice long day, just soaking it all in! When you are done, you step out into a foot of snow! How does your leg feel? Tingly? Hurts a bit, it isn't a pleasant at all huh? Then you keep you leg in the snow and it begins to go numb, so you are no longer feeling the unpleasant cold of the snow.

The warmth of you body is like you spiritual sensitivity. When you become warm in the hot tub, your senses (especially touch) are heightened. Just like when you immerse yourself in a very wholesome lifestyle, your spiritual senses are heightened. So when you are nice and warm and hit the cold, it is not pleasant at all and makes you want to crawl back into the hot tub. But when you stay in the snow, you become numb to it and no longer feel it. Just like with our spirits, we enjoy life so much when we live in accordance to the gospel and live a pure wholesome life, and even the touch of sin or coldness makes us want to retreat back to living, because it hurts at first! But if we selfishly choose to numb ourselves and venture into the cold, we will freeze virtually without even knowing it until it is too late. And if you are frozen and intend on getting warm again, you must do so slowly, as not to shock the body. Once you are warm enough from building yourself back up to heat slowly, then you can enjoy that hot tub again! So keep yourselves spiritually alert and conditioned at all times!