“Many of us thus have sufficient faith to avoid the major sins of commission, but not enough faith to sacrifice our distracting obsessions or to focus on our omissions.” Neal A. Maxwell
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1995/10/swallowed-up-in-the-will-of-the-father?lang=eng
What distractions and sins of omission are getting in our way that we are not willing to sacrifice? We want to be more valiant, then let us evaluate our lives and make some new commitments and resolve to take the necessary steps to honoring those commitments. Maxwell continues with more instruction for us:
“Most omissions occur because we fail to get outside ourselves. We are so busy checking on our own temperatures, we do not notice the burning fevers of others even when we can offer them some of the needed remedies, such as encouragement, kindness, and commendation. The hands which hang down and most need to be lifted up belong to those too discouraged even to reach out anymore.
Actually, everything depends—initially and finally—on our desires. These shape our thought patterns. Our desires thus precede our deeds and lie at the very cores of our souls, tilting us toward or away from God (see D&C 4:3). God can “educate our desires” (see Joseph F. Smith, Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1939, p. 297). Others seek to manipulate our desires. But it is we who form the desires, the “thoughts and intents of [our] hearts” (Mosiah 5:13).”
Craig
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