One: Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
The Ten Commandments were given for man, given for those who are in made the image and likeness of God, but many pay very little attention to them and some ignore them completely.
Those people are a law unto themselves.
Unfortunately many do not know where to find God and so they push the thought out of their life.
If something spiritual comes up, they look to someone around them but this does not fill the void in their lives.
Their immortal spirit craves and is hungry for something missing deep inside. The hollow ache tells them that they cannot find satisfaction in earthly affluence.
Something from another source is needed.
Our Heavenly Father has warned and commanded us who are His children not to worship false gods. We are not to put the activities and pleasures of the world ahead of Him.
If we show greater love and interest for the things of the world and the fun and pleasures than we do for God our Heavenly Father, God said He would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate him.
This disrespect for Heavenly Father will be passed on to our posterity. In other words, what they see is what they do or as the old saying goes, Monkey See, Monkey Do.
If a father loves our Heavenly Father, this also will pass on to their children.
He made this earth for us to gain a physical body for our spirit.
He gave us Free Agency to choose between right and wrong and to experience Joy and pain and to learn from the experience.
He gave us prophets who, by inspiration, gave us scriptures to guide us in this life. He gave the Ten Commandments to the world to help us all live together peacefully.
God’s commandments serve as a standard against which priorities can be measured. Our respect for the first commandment fashions our feelings for all the others.
If we break God’s first commandment, we cannot escape the consequences of our actions. If we allow any other person or cause to come before allegiance to Him, we will regret it.
Since we are all children of God and are created in His image, we have natural appetites to control which come from our thoughts. Wise mothers and fathers will teach members of their family how to make personal decisions based upon divine law.
Listen to what Amulek said about all of us in this life test:
ALMA 34: 32-34
32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.
33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
34 Ye cannot say when ye are brought to that awful crisis that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
Before coming here to gain an earthly body, we knew our Heavenly Father very well. He loved us and we loved Him there. We are here to learn about Him and to learn to love Him again.
Make Him first in your life.
For more information, go to www.lds.org
Comments are welcome.
The Ten Commandments were given for man, given for those who are in made the image and likeness of God, but many pay very little attention to them and some ignore them completely.
Those people are a law unto themselves.
Unfortunately many do not know where to find God and so they push the thought out of their life.
If something spiritual comes up, they look to someone around them but this does not fill the void in their lives.
Their immortal spirit craves and is hungry for something missing deep inside. The hollow ache tells them that they cannot find satisfaction in earthly affluence.
Something from another source is needed.
Our Heavenly Father has warned and commanded us who are His children not to worship false gods. We are not to put the activities and pleasures of the world ahead of Him.
If we show greater love and interest for the things of the world and the fun and pleasures than we do for God our Heavenly Father, God said He would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of those that hate him.
This disrespect for Heavenly Father will be passed on to our posterity. In other words, what they see is what they do or as the old saying goes, Monkey See, Monkey Do.
If a father loves our Heavenly Father, this also will pass on to their children.
He made this earth for us to gain a physical body for our spirit.
He gave us Free Agency to choose between right and wrong and to experience Joy and pain and to learn from the experience.
He gave us prophets who, by inspiration, gave us scriptures to guide us in this life. He gave the Ten Commandments to the world to help us all live together peacefully.
God’s commandments serve as a standard against which priorities can be measured. Our respect for the first commandment fashions our feelings for all the others.
If we break God’s first commandment, we cannot escape the consequences of our actions. If we allow any other person or cause to come before allegiance to Him, we will regret it.
Since we are all children of God and are created in His image, we have natural appetites to control which come from our thoughts. Wise mothers and fathers will teach members of their family how to make personal decisions based upon divine law.
Listen to what Amulek said about all of us in this life test:
ALMA 34: 32-34
32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.
33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.
34 Ye cannot say when ye are brought to that awful crisis that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
Before coming here to gain an earthly body, we knew our Heavenly Father very well. He loved us and we loved Him there. We are here to learn about Him and to learn to love Him again.
Make Him first in your life.
For more information, go to www.lds.org
Comments are welcome.
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