11-17-11 “He did deliver me from bondage” p. 127 Day 3

11-17-11                “He did deliver me from bondage”  p. 127 Day 3

I was thinking of “ease” this morning.  I talked to a friend about how the path to captivity is “easy” and the path to freedom is “Work”.  I think there are areas of each of our lives that we are stuck in an ‘auto-pilot’ mode where we are not really working to apply our best selves.  I have realized recently that I need to work much harder to ‘work’ with the children inspiring them to love to learn.  I have realized the weight of my responsibility and the depth of their education that is completely on my shoulders.  It would be so much easier to ‘toss the ball’ over to someone else.  But God gave them to me.  I am the parent, and I am response-able.  I know I can never lift the weight of my work alone and I must ask for His power and grace to help me lift it. 

Mosiah 4:30

But this much I can tell you, that if ye do not ^awatch yourselves, and your ^bthoughts, and your ^cwords, and your deeds, and observe the commandments of God, and ^dcontinue in the faith of what ye have heard concerning the coming of our Lord, even unto the end of your lives, ye must perish. And now, O man, remember, and perish not.