"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.
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.
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