You do not have to be caught in the trap of morality. You need to look to the future to see how your actions are impacting your future.
Be prepared and worthy ever ready to serve the Lord.
We understand not the things the Lord has prepared for us. The devil attempts to blind us to the rewards of the future by focusing on the now.
-->He throws dust to blind our eyes. Tempts us the the transitory pleasures of the world blinding us to the sources of eternal joy.
One has not begun to repent until he suffers intensly for His sin.
Acceptance by your peers must not come by compromising the standards of the Lord. Moral impurity causes you to shrink before the Lord, before family, and friends.
If you can feel confident in front of the family and preisthood leaders you can imagine how you will feel before the Lord.
Mosiah 3:28 keeping the commandments helps us in all things.
How to Maintain Purity
1.Know the standards.
-Don't push the limits, based on definitions. Create buffers to protect yourself from breaking the standards.
-Follow the promtings of the spirit. The promotings will never lead you to do anything to make you feel uncomfortable or unclean.
2. Live the Standards
-The Lord will take nothing in His heart unless he will do it.
-Make a firm decision to stand for what is right. Set high goals. Make it a goal to be morally clean.
-You need not face temptation alone.
-Rely on the Lord and those who have gone before you. As you gain firm footing you will be able to assist others.
-Initiate conversations with your parents about standards .
-Make a commitment to live the churches standards.
3. Choose Firends whom share your Standards.
-Establish a strong bond to help others on the path of righteousness.
4. Cultivate a Courtsey Attitude to women of all ages.
Purity recieves power. Cleanse yourself before me then go forth to preach my message.
Sin = Shrinking
we need not fear the fututer, if we will keep the commandments. --Hugh B Brown prayer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC4aV5WutY0&list=PL2CGJesU3sEjEaMhpwf-rfLIcfKtau8KJ
If we stop chopping at the branches of this problem and strike more directly at the root of the tree, not surprisingly we find lust lurking furtively there. Lust is an unsavory word, and it is certainly an unsavory topic for me to address, but there is good reason why in some traditions it is known as the most deadly of the seven deadly sins. 2
Why is lust such a deadly sin? Well, in addition to the completely Spirit-destroying impact it has upon our souls, I think it is a sin because it defiles the highest and holiest relationship God gives us in mortality—the love that a man and a woman have for each other and the desire that couple has to bring children into a family intended to be forever. Someone said once that true love must include the idea of permanence. True love endures. But lust changes as quickly as it can turn a pornographic page or glance at yet another potential object for gratification walking by, male or female. True love we are absolutely giddy about—as I am about Sister Holland; we shout it from the housetops. But lust is characterized by shame and stealth and is almost pathologically clandestine—the later and darker the hour the better, with a double-bolted door just in case. Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes with open hands and open heart; lust comes with only an open appetite.
These are just some of the reasons that prostituting the true meaning of love—either with imagination or another person—is so destructive. It destroys that which is second only to our faith in God—namely, faith in those we love. It shakes the pillars of trust upon which present—or future—love is built, and it takes a long time to rebuild that trust when it is lost.
Run
Pray
Seek Blessing
The only real control in life is self control. ---Set buffers?
The Music, The Art, The Media, The Habits
Every sin causes pain to ourselves, to our God, to our Savior, and to those you rely on our best selves.
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