Wow, that is all I can say about the amazing General Conference that we just had! I love listening to the voices of Heavenly Father's servants as they speak to us for our day! But after that comes the hard part. We can listen to the prophets all day long, but do we really hear what they say?
I had a calculus class in High School that was right after lunch. What a bad combination! There were many times when I would enjoy a nap instead of hearing what the teacher had to say. That was really fun in the moment, then came time to apply what the teacher had just talked about. As you can guess I had a hard time doing the homework because I was asleep when the teacher was explaining how to best do it. So I would then have to spend a lot of time learning by trial and error when it would be a lot easier to just listen closely to what the teacher had to say in the first place.
Then again, that is only half of the puzzle. We can listen closely to the counsel that Heavenly Father has for us but it isn't worth a lick if we don't apply what we learn. Jacob explains this very eloquently in 2 Nephi 9:28-29. In verse 29 he says that "to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God." We have just received a weekend full of the counsels of God. Now we just need to "hearken."
My dear brothers and sisters, God loves us all so much!! He wants true and everlasting happiness for us! We may think that at times we are constrained and our freedom is limited by following the commandments, but I promise that as we do follow the commands of God, and as we hearken to the counsels of his authorized servants in these days, that we will find "liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men," and be able to escape "captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil; for he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself." (2 Nephi 2:27)
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