Already failed
Okay, so I made a promise to blog for 21 days straight and that already proved to be a lofty promise for me to make. It's okay, I'll pick up where I left off, which is reflections of Christ. I posted in my other blog of Jesus the Christ, some of my thoughts on the Saviour. I am reading in Doctrine and Covenants 71-75 and have realized that with every instruction the Lord gave he always proceeded with a promise. He would openly chastise His children but gave them the charge or the opportunity to repent and be forgiven.
I want to focus on the idea of perfect obedience, something we struggle with in mortality because of our "fallen" ( I will use this interchangeably with mortal)states. We were given agency upon arrival to Earth, so that we would be able to choose right from wrong and be able to take the correct path that would lead us to eternal life. Why wouldn't we want to obey someone who has perfect love for us? Sometimes it feels like blind obedience, of course I'm using this term loosely, but honestly, we do=we get. Once we start to think about these things, then we are humbled by that which we have, but we start focusing on the temporal gifts that are given us, such as health and home, etc. The spiritual things we do take for granted such as a perfect understanding of who we are, where we came from, where we're going. This knowledge gives us one of the strongholds that made Christ in His obedience perfect, the POWER of God.
Okay, with that said, why did the Saviour have perfect obedience?
Here's a little tidbit: The Saviour was literal offspring of deity. So, what do we need to do to keep the perspective: Be patient with ourselves and those around us. I think I'm starting to see the bigger picture now. Love is the greatest commandment because we need to strive to have patience and long-suffering for our brothers and sisters, but we also have stewardship over that which the Saviour worked so hard to achieve, which was an understanding of who our Father in Heaven was, who is full of grace and love for His children. When I talk about that word stewardship: I mean a responsibility over the care of something (in this case it's the gospel of repentance/plan of salvation). We are responsible over that which the Saviour left with us, which was his example and His work, which is to bring to pass eternal life of man! I love it when the scriptures come to life. We are here keeping Him ALIVE in the hearts of men. He left a legacy and still manages over these affairs, while in the Heavens. He sends His Spirit to be with us that we can "take care" of his vineyard. "Prune" his vineyard is the term that he uses when he talks about man managing His affairs. So, he takes our commitment to Him very seriously as he manages everything from afar. He's always after "the one", so we must await Him patiently as we try to keep the rest corralled and uplifted.
Another question: Why would the Saviour want to be like His father?
Because who wouldn't want to be like someone they adore and respect. I think I'm getting the bigger picture... They say love your children, love them so much that they would know no other source to go to in perilous times, and thus we see why it is we need to know our Saviour and His matchless love for us, so that we turn to no one or nothing other than Him. That is how we make our yoke easy: We trust him, we love Him, we serve Him, and then he blesses us. Not in the temporal things (which could be "side-effects" from our obedience, or the world likes to call it KARMA) but with His POWER and an added measure of the Spirit that we may overcome the world.
Our Spirits are literal offspring of deity but our flesh is not and thus we see a great battle stirring within us. However, as we train ourselves and teach ourselves (physical bodies: Muscle memory) cause and effect (you serve, you pray, therefore you receive) and strive to purify ourselves of the unholy and unclean things, we see a great harmony arise in our souls (it is the merger of our spirit and our body) and that duet performance that we used to have is no longer there.
I love my Saviour, I am grateful for that Power that we receive as we strive to live the commandments, I pray that I can be instrumental in His work; that I may harmonize all the way back to His presence.
I want to focus on the idea of perfect obedience, something we struggle with in mortality because of our "fallen" ( I will use this interchangeably with mortal)states. We were given agency upon arrival to Earth, so that we would be able to choose right from wrong and be able to take the correct path that would lead us to eternal life. Why wouldn't we want to obey someone who has perfect love for us? Sometimes it feels like blind obedience, of course I'm using this term loosely, but honestly, we do=we get. Once we start to think about these things, then we are humbled by that which we have, but we start focusing on the temporal gifts that are given us, such as health and home, etc. The spiritual things we do take for granted such as a perfect understanding of who we are, where we came from, where we're going. This knowledge gives us one of the strongholds that made Christ in His obedience perfect, the POWER of God.
Okay, with that said, why did the Saviour have perfect obedience?
Here's a little tidbit: The Saviour was literal offspring of deity. So, what do we need to do to keep the perspective: Be patient with ourselves and those around us. I think I'm starting to see the bigger picture now. Love is the greatest commandment because we need to strive to have patience and long-suffering for our brothers and sisters, but we also have stewardship over that which the Saviour worked so hard to achieve, which was an understanding of who our Father in Heaven was, who is full of grace and love for His children. When I talk about that word stewardship: I mean a responsibility over the care of something (in this case it's the gospel of repentance/plan of salvation). We are responsible over that which the Saviour left with us, which was his example and His work, which is to bring to pass eternal life of man! I love it when the scriptures come to life. We are here keeping Him ALIVE in the hearts of men. He left a legacy and still manages over these affairs, while in the Heavens. He sends His Spirit to be with us that we can "take care" of his vineyard. "Prune" his vineyard is the term that he uses when he talks about man managing His affairs. So, he takes our commitment to Him very seriously as he manages everything from afar. He's always after "the one", so we must await Him patiently as we try to keep the rest corralled and uplifted.
Another question: Why would the Saviour want to be like His father?
Because who wouldn't want to be like someone they adore and respect. I think I'm getting the bigger picture... They say love your children, love them so much that they would know no other source to go to in perilous times, and thus we see why it is we need to know our Saviour and His matchless love for us, so that we turn to no one or nothing other than Him. That is how we make our yoke easy: We trust him, we love Him, we serve Him, and then he blesses us. Not in the temporal things (which could be "side-effects" from our obedience, or the world likes to call it KARMA) but with His POWER and an added measure of the Spirit that we may overcome the world.
Our Spirits are literal offspring of deity but our flesh is not and thus we see a great battle stirring within us. However, as we train ourselves and teach ourselves (physical bodies: Muscle memory) cause and effect (you serve, you pray, therefore you receive) and strive to purify ourselves of the unholy and unclean things, we see a great harmony arise in our souls (it is the merger of our spirit and our body) and that duet performance that we used to have is no longer there.
I love my Saviour, I am grateful for that Power that we receive as we strive to live the commandments, I pray that I can be instrumental in His work; that I may harmonize all the way back to His presence.
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