Week 6

One verse that I love states this. “But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head” (Helaman 13:38). I had a super special experience with this verse on my mission with one of my investigators. We had assigned him this chapter to read and this verse really testified to him of true happiness coming from God and not from the world. He understood that cheap worldly pleasures were not true joy and that by living for those he could not have the real happiness that comes from following God and his commandments. It really spoke to him about the little pleasure he got from smoking not being worth it in the long run. He realized that he was seeking for happiness in doing iniquity and that it was not what he wanted. It was because of this verse that he had the strength and desire to quit smoking and prepare to be baptized. I know that we can apply this to all of our lives with great or small worldly pleasures that we each have. We can’t put off repentance and change. We have to choose now follow God more fully in our lives and we will find that by doing so we are much more happy.