Become a Spiritual Man

Everyone would love to have personal revelation. You might even have experienced it yourself. Direct guidance from god. A personal spiritual channel between you and your heavenly father. It could be as simple as a prompting or as powerful as a physical voice.

I'm at a point in my life where I'm seeking for this personal revelation. I'm making major decisions right now that will have a huge effect on the rest of my life. I've realized that all I've been doing is asking, however. Everything comes with a sacrifice of some kind, and that applies to personal revelation as well. I realize that I need to sacrifice some of my time to go the extra mile spiritually. I need to spend more time on my knees and less time in my office chair on my computer, unless of course I'm looking up videos on Mormon.org. ;)

1st Corinthians 2: 14 states, "But the natural man recieveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." If I'm not nourishing the spiritual side of myself then I'm not going to be getting personal revelation. Period. It's time I stopped relying on textbooks and even mormon literature to find revelation. It's time I gave up some time, fell on my knees, and offered more sincere prayers. I must become a spiritual man.

Good luck in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. The road will often seem hard that we are called to trek, but if we rely on Christ anything is possible.

Walk Honestly Toward Them

As I was reading in 1st Thessalonians in the Bible, a letter to the saints in Thessilonica, I came across a scripture (1 Thessalonians 4:12) that said, "walk honestly towards them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." I've been thinking a lot about what this is trying to say.

In my very non-expert opinion, I interpreted it to be saying that to approach people honestly with the gospel we have to be completely honest with ourselves first. Do I believe in what I'm going to be teaching for two years? When I teach am I going to be spitting facts, or bearing a piece of my soul to them? I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be true to yourself.

This ties in to how personalized the gospel is to each of us I think. The most precious part of the gospel to someone else is probably completely different than what I hold dear. Our task is to find out how the gospel fits into each of our individual lives, and be honest to ourselves about that before we can teach others how to do the same thing.

Sometimes I wish the apostles would write me a letter of advice, as they did to the Thessalonians. I'm grateful for the talks they have given in General Conferences to the church that are available online. Sometimes I feel like they're talking directly to me. I'm still trying to figure out who I am as a member of the church, even though I know it is true. So for all of those people thinking the same thing: You're not alone.