“that we
may preserve unto them (our children)”
-living
the gospel often causes us to act not for ourselves but for others who may be
several generations removed from us. It
is to act with a godly perspective. This
frequently requires sacrifice for people and occasions we will not know in
mortality. This is to have an eye of
faith. The spiritual being operates with
eternity in mind. The physical being
operates with here and now in mind –decisions are made based on what will I get
out of it immediately? God’s plans have
the scope of eternity as a point of reference.
Our best decisions are made when we consider the eternal consequences of
an immediate choice.
-our
children inherit and pay the price of our choices. Consider what would have happened if Nephi
and his brothers had abandoned their efforts to retrieve the brass plates with
the language and doctrine of the Messiah…
For one or two generations the progeny might have lived off the strong
legacy of Lehi and Nephi but eventually it would have become myth and tired
tradition. Truth seems to have a
half-life in mortality. Half of the
faith and commitment would have made it to the first generation and then it
would be cut in half again from the first to the second generation until it
would have been fundamentally changed, forgotted or dismissed.
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