Monday, November 9, 2009

Don’t Surrender to Base Human Tendencies

In the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” the Mr. Potter character is petty, selfish, greedy, materialistic, and just plain mean. It’s a great sketch of how someone that indulges in natural or base human tendencies is miserable and unhappy.

We have the God given ability to decide what we do and choose how we feel. If someone offends us we can choose to hurt them or forgive them. If we see an opportunity in a business transaction to take advantage of someone for our own benefit we can choose to be greedy or honest.

In 124 B.C. King Benjamin said “the natural man is an enemy to God”. Be disciplined. Control our passions and appetites. Overcome our natural tendencies toward base behavior.

Overcoming the natural man leads to happiness and contentment.

- Mosiah 3:19

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