Picture this...a long stick with a word written on each end..."choices" on one end and "consequences" on the other. Can you pick up one end without picking up the other end? NO. In life, can you select a choice without selecting its consequence? NO. That is what Karil Sweetwood, my next-door-neighbor, has been teaching in Primary and it's been a great month.
The Gospel is full of examples of choices and consequences. This morning I got up early (like 5:20 am early) to go to the temple. While there, I listened for choices and consequences. Basically, if we are obedient and faithful, we will have every blessing imaginable. I know they may not come in this life, but they will all come eventually. Lehi taught his children that they were free to choose liberty and eternal life or to choose captivity and death. I'll take the first. Elder Bennett reminded us in October Conference that our "eternal destiny will not be the result of chance, but of choice."
This is great motivation to make good choices! Onward and forward!
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