The Hour Glass

Once again we had an awesome lesson in my Provident Living Sunday school class.  We talked about the plan of happiness.  I really liked the way the teacher portrayed which way we can live our lives. He said we can either follow God's path or Satan's path. Which would you choose?  

Obviously the one to the right looks pretty promising.  The further you go it seems as if you just get more and more freedom.  More and more possibilities for life. The one on the left all you see is that your path gets smaller and smaller.  It seems as if you will end up with no freedom at the end.  No more possibilities. Sure Satan's path is wide open.  SUPER FUN.... While God's path seems limited.  That's the way Satan works though.  He doesn't show you the rest of his picture. He makes you think and believe that his way is the best and will give you more freedom.  He deceives the image of a happy ending.  While if you were to live God's path He will show you the rest of his image and you can clearly see that his ending is by far much better then Satan's.

I know that it's not always easy to follow the Lord's commandments.  It's not always easy to choose His way.  Especially in times when it would involve embarrassment or loss of pride.  But in the scheme of things Pride is the cause of all sin. Pride is what gets you to lead the path of Satan anyway.  All God wants for us is happiness.  He wants us to experience the things we experience and make those hard decisions because he sees the bigger picture.  He can see that if we follow his path to the narrow way that just beyond that is a never ending path of happiness.  So think twice when you have those moments of "Do I choose this? or do I choose that?"  No one is perfect but I know remembering this helps me to try and make the right decision.  It gives me comfort knowing that living the gospel is all worth it in the end.  The hard things bring good things. Lessons Learned:

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?  or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with  his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."  -St. Matthew 16:25-27