Week 14

Moroni 10: 32 "Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." What does it mean to deny yourself of all ungodliness? I think that we each have things in our lives that we know aren't the best things but that we justify. It's these things that are the hardest for us to deny ourselves from participating in. But it's these things that are stopping our progression. It's the things that we continue to justify, that drive the Spirit away (but that aren't bad enough to make us feel guilty bright to stop doing them) that are keeping us from coming closer to Christ. I know that in my own life, this is something that I can work on. I can deny myself if the urge to judge others when I see differences in them that I don't agree with. I can deny myself the impulse to say something rude to or about someone when I'm in a bad mood. I can deny myself the inclination of pride. Of feeling like I am better than others. Or feeling like I can do something a better way than they can. I can deny myself of the music and TV shows that I know don't have a good message. I know that these are some of the things that are keeping me from having the Spirit constantly in my life. I know that as I consistently work on these things than God will bless me with the power to overcome them. His grave is sufficient and I will be perfected in Him.