Skip to main content

Eternal Potential

Image
By
"I am a child of God with a spirit lineage to heavenly parents. That parentage defines our eternal potential" (Elder Dallin H. Oaks). It is our faith that as sons and daughters of God, we have the potential to become like him. Satan likes it when we doubt this. He doesn't want us to believe we have potential to become better than we are. He wants us to fall. My question is whether it is my own mind that makes me doubt or if it is Satan. Maybe it's both. I do have the tendency to doubt that I could have so much potential. 

I am always getting those voices in my head that give me doubt. I get an idea to do something and if I don't hurry and do it, I doubt myself, then I talk myself out of it. Why is it so easy to put ourselves down? Is that Satan or is it ourselves? I have so many ideas of things that I want to accomplish but I don't get them done because I can't keep that motivation. It's frustrating. I build my motivation again and then I lose it. It's a vicious cycle. I have wondered if we unconsciously want to make ourselves fall. It's easier that way. We don't have to keep motivating ourselves and we don't have to work hard for it.

I am sure you're confused of what I mean but I read the article called "Moses, My Son" by Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Presidency of the Seventy from January's Ensign, and I really liked what he said from the beginning of this post. If I really believed and realized who I am and how much potential I have, then that could change how I do things right? If I can have faith in myself because of Jesus Christ, then I can be happier and will not doubt. As long as what I strive for is for a good purpose, and the right thing to do, I should not doubt. I am Heavenly Father's daughter and I can be like Him. That's the whole purpose of me being on this earth in the first place. Just to remember that in all I do, is what I need to work on.

Comments

Patty said…
I've wondered some of those same things. I think whether we realize it or not, outside forces have created some of our thoughts and feelings. So even if deep down inside we know certain things, there are outside forces (maybe Satan) that tempts us otherwise. It is amazing that we are children of someone so divine and that we can become that if we allow ourselves. Often times I might have doubts about certain choices but I always try to remember how I felt while I prayed about the idea or how I felt when I attended the temple while thinking of the choice to make. Good luck on getting more motivated. I need to do the same.
March 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Angela said…
Everyone does the same thing I think. We all get answers to prayers and promptings that we don't act on. We should, but sometimes it doesn't get done and I think Satan is what keeps us from doing that. I don't think it's you, it's Satan. How many times have I been truly inspired when I was at church, listened to General Conference, or just had a prayer answered, but then forgot it the next hour and just went about my day. It takes effort to write it down, remember it and act on it. I have to get kicked in the head a bunch of times before I do something I should. I'm that horrible.
April 6, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

In The Arms of Safety

By
  16  And thus a mercy can satisfy the demands of b justice , and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of c justice ; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal d plan of e redemption . The key phrase in this scripture that I love is "in the arms of safety."  I have been given the path to feel safe in Jesus Christ's arms. I am very grateful for the physical safety I enjoy every day, but I am also grateful for the spiritual safety I can enjoy when I follow Jesus Christ. When I'm following his footsteps as best as i can, I feel that safety. It is a gift that He has given me and everyone. Of course, it isn't easy and it requires faith in the atonement and Jesus Christ, but the joy you can feel doing it is worth it.
Post a Comment
Read more

War - Force or Freedom

By Kevin
I have been looking at war in a different way lately. This quote from Spencer W. Kimball struck me when I heard it today and I wanted to share it here ( June 1976 First Presidency Message ): "In spite of our delight in defining ourselves as modern, and our tendency to think we possess a sophistication that no people in the past ever had—in spite of these things, we are, on the whole, an idolatrous people—a condition most repugnant to the Lord. "We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel—ships, planes, missiles, fortifications—and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become antienemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan’s counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the Savior’s teaching: "'Lov...
2 comments
Read more

To Be Humble

By
Trials come into my life just like everyone else. They teach me and humble me. Life is pretty good right now. We just moved into a new house. I have definitely seen the Lord's hands in my life. He has blessed me to find an amazing man that makes me very happy. Our children have loved each other and for the most part, gotten along great. Our path has been a steady flow of progression, which has helped me know that it is the right one. The Lord's timing is so much better than my own. After I married my husband close to two years ago, our blended family moved into his parents home. His parents built their home over 30 years ago. They moved out to live with my husband's grandfather, because he was no longer able to be left alone. Less than a year after we moved in, his grandfather passed away. We started wondering where and when we need to move. We didn't feel the prompting to move until close to a year afterwards. It was time to sell the home we were renting. Our financi...
Post a Comment
Read more