One of my teen sons (name not disclosed, but here is a link to his picture from facebook if you are curious) is completely infatuated with his girlfriend. He thinks about her all the time and wants to be with her all the time. Everything he does is with part of his mind on her and how she will view what he does.
So when I read this morning what Alma said to his youthful son a strong correlation automatically came to mind. See if it does to yours:
“Yea, and cry unto God for all thy support; yea, let all thy doings be unto the Lord, and whithersoever thou goest let it be in the Lord; yea, let all thy thoughts be directed unto the Lord; yea, let the affections of thy heart be placed upon the Lord forever.”
Wow. If you could extend the same energy, focus, and affections of your heart to the Lord as my son does to his girlfriend there would be no question but that you would be living right.
2 comments:
Amen, brother.
p.s. NOT looking forward to having my little girls become teenagers. actually, i'm terrified.
I would venture to guess we all have something that we put a large portion of our energy into (and it's not the Lord) which we could use this same analogy. :)
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