No Need to Worry

For those of you who don’t know, we as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, believe in Christ’s Atonement. Through this, our sins can be forgiven. Christ died on the cross for us so that we could have this opportunity.

Now think of a moment when you did something that you knew was wrong and you would get in trouble for. For example, this might be something that you did as a child. When I was in kindergarten, my family’s dining table had six cushioned chairs for us to sit at as we ate. The two chairs at each end of the table were the only ones with wooden armrests on them. My dad was the only one at the table who consistently sat in the head chair with the arm rests, and I was jealous. Everyone always took turns on sharing the other chair, but my dad consecutively got the same “king chair,” as I had called it, every night for dinner. I really wanted those arm rests. One day I had a miraculous idea that I thought would help me get my rule over that chair. I grabbed a ballpoint pen, got on my knees and leaned over the seat of the chair, and drew each letter of my name down a row of those checkers on the cushion. “M-a-n-d-y.” I knew I was going to get in big trouble for it, but I just wanted to win and make that chair mine! 

Obviously now that I am older, I deal with more serious situations where I am faced with a choice that could potentially make it to where I need to repent and ask God for forgiveness for what I have done.

Now I am not saying that you should never make mistakes, nor am I saying that I always choose the right thing. However, I am saying that we always have a choice. For those of us who constantly choose the option that hurts us spiritually, there strikes a sense of fear of God. Aren’t you afraid after you do something that your mom wouldn’t approve of, to get confronted by your mom about it? The same thing applies to choosing wrong and facing God.

In 2 Nephi 9:40, it states, “I know that the words of truth are hard against all uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not, for they love the truth and are not shaken.”

It is important that we always strive to live in a way that our Heavenly Father will be proud of us. He sent His son for us so that we can repent of our sins and return to live with Him again someday. If we live righteously we will live a life full of eternal happiness and we will feel comfortable in the presence of God.