Personal progress

I really enjoyed this article in the most recent Ensign.

I know that we must always progress and move forward. We can't just be okay with feeling like we are doing "good enough." There was an excerpt at the end of the article that I loved.

"In Alma chapter 37, we read of Alma’s advice to his son Helaman. Inverses 41–42, Alma talks about Lehi’s family and the Liahona. He explains that the Liahona would not work when “they were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence” and that “they did not progress in their journey; therefore, they tarried in the wilderness, or did not travel a direct course.” Reading these verses helped me realize that I was not progressing. I was not exercising my faith or being diligent in anything in my life. I had stopped working toward a goal. I was simply waiting for something to happen."

Progress is essential and I know that we should constantly be finding ways to be better and improve. I know that as I work on improving in many different areas of our lives we will continue to come closer to the image and plan that our Heavenly Father has for us. He sees our potential and wants us to continually progress so that we can be closer to that potential.

Stepping up

Today I got to go to Sunday instead of primary and we were talking about partaking of the sacrament each week. It was pointed out that we should be preparing for the sacrament throughout the week. (This is something that I need to work on.) A comment was mad that some have thought of the sacrament as a high point each week where we can repent and remember our covenants and be clean. Then as the week goes on we might fall into old habits and will be in need of repenting again. So our process look like a wave with peaks, but in reality it should be more like a stair step. Each week the sacrament would be our chance to step up to the next level and progress spiritually. I really loved this analogy and I am hoping it will help me improve and progress in my spiritual journey.

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