Ether 2

(December 18, 2014)

                I think we see things so temporally at times that we don’t realize how precarious our position truly is.  It is not for nothing that the Lord advises us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.  We think that we can dabble at the edge of sin of whatever sort (vice, habit, anger, judgmentalism, or whatever our personal poison happens to be) and go only so far along that path but not so far that we run into problems.

                But we cannot keep ourselves on the path regardless of how hard we try – so to think we can dabble with sin and keep ourselves from going too far is foolish.  The Spirit will not always strive with us, and the time when the Spirit ceases to strive with us there is no way that we can make our way back.  It is a necessity that we do everything we can to avoid taking any steps away from the Spirit – we cannot keep close on our own, but our best efforts will allow the Spirit to continue to empower us to follow Him.