Wise Words (From Feb 3rd)

Hello Family and Friends!

This past week was great for a few reasons. We saw some pretty incredible things, but one thing became very apparent to me...This is truly our time to prepare to meet God again. In Mormon 9:28 we read, "Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God." Oh how I love that scripture! I love that the words "wise", "firmness", "unshaken", "serve", "true", and "living" are used. They truly speak volumes!

So one might ask, how do we prepare to meet God? Well, we serve Him. When we are in the service of our God, we are growing and progressing. We are improving and becoming the person that He created us to be. And another might ask, how do we serve Him? Well, we serve others. We serve others by giving of our time and energy to help out. We turn outward instead of inward. We remember that each person around us is a child of the same God and that He loves them JUST AS MUCH as He loves you. Those are just a few ways that we can serve others... Not to mention a million more to go along with them..

This is something my mind is still trying to wrap itself around, but I know that it is true. I know that the time we have been given here is our time to prepare to meet God and that we prepare by serving Him and we serve Him by serving His children. I hope that we can all keep that in mind through our day to day life and we can truly use this time wisely. I love you all!

Until Next Time,

Sister Crawford