If we pick and choose what we accept in the proclamation, we cloud our eternal view, putting too much importance on our experience here and now.
What is truth?” can be painfully complex to the secular mind.
A Google search for “What is truth?” brings more than a million responses. We have more available information on our cell phones than in all the books of a brick and mortar library. We live with information and opinion overload. Enticing and alluring voices pursue us at every turn.
Truth looks backward and forward, expanding the perspective of our small point in time.
Truth shows us the way to eternal life, and it comes only through our Savior, Jesus Christ. There is no other way.
Jesus Christ teaches us how to live, and, through His Atonement and Resurrection, He offers us forgiveness from our sins and immortality beyond the veil. This is absolutely true.
Our mortal quest is to strengthen our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, to choose good over evil, and to keep His commandments.
With the Restoration of the gospel, God has given us the way to learn and know essential spiritual truths: we learn them through the holy scriptures, through our personal prayers and our own experiences, through the counsel of the living prophets and apostles, and through the guidance of the Holy Ghost, who can help us to “know the truth of all things.
We can know the things of God as we seek them spiritually. Paul said, “The things of God knoweth no man, except he has the Spirit of God. … [For] they are spiritually discerned.”
You and I are not an accident of nature.
Our individual identity is stamped in us forever. In ways we don’t fully understand, our spiritual growth there in the premortal world influences who we are here.
Our Father’s plan encourages a husband and wife to bring children into the world and obligates us to speak in defense of the unborn.
By prayerfully pondering the proclamation through the eye of faith, we better understand how the principles are beautifully connected, supporting one another, revealing our Father’s plan for His children.
“Prophets see ahead. They see the harrowing dangers the adversary has placed or will yet place in our path. Prophets also foresee the grand possibilities and privileges awaiting those who listen with the intent to obey.” -Russell M. Nelson
God’s standards are different from those of the world. The laws of man often move outside the boundaries set by the laws of God.
No choice, no alternative that denies the companionship of the Holy Ghost or the blessings of eternity is worthy of our consideration.
Here is the full talk:https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2019/04/25andersen?lang=eng
-Sherri Jorgensen
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