Day 43 Choosing Christ for Liberty and Eternal Life

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.

Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from, thank you for joining me and know that I'm cheering for your every success. Welcome to day 43 and the second half of our conversation on the law of polarity. Today on our 365-day journey, we're going to be reading from 2 Nephi 2, verses 20 through 30.

You're going to finish that chapter. And then you're going to start 2 Nephi 3, verses 20 through 30. We're going to read verse 27 today.

This is what it has to say. The Bible says. Now we talked yesterday about the law of polarity and embracing the idea that opposition exists and it's going to exist in all aspects of our lives.

And then I think Lehi does this on purpose. He gets to the ultimate law of polarity here, the ultimate opposition: Christ and the devil. You have Christ on one side: light, liberty, eternal life, freedom.

And then you have the devil, a representation of darkness, captivity, even death. He mentions inside of here that we have the ability to choose those. I think it interesting because we learn also inside this chapter that men are to be agents unto themselves, to act and not be acted upon.

And here we have the ultimate action that we can take. And that is to accept and invite Jesus Christ, the mediator of all men, to come into our lives. And by doing so, we choose liberty and eternal life.

I think it's interesting. We were having a conversation as family about the ability to choose and how our choices do tend to lead us towards greater freedom or towards greater captivity based on the choices we make. I like to consider it in a way of hallways.

I like to see it like it's hallways. And if I go through a door, if I make a choice to go through a door, I either go into a hallway that has more doors available to me because I increased my choices through the choice that I made, or I go into a hallway and there's fewer doors that I can then choose. We be right back.

That close our options down every time until we led down to only one or two options left in life. I want to tell you that I have understood in my life that when I choose Christ, I choose the hallway with greater doorways. I see more potential in my life, more opportunities in my life, and I see greater happiness in my life by choosing Christ.

And I'd encourage you to see what choices you've made in your life that draws Christ closer to you and how that turns into liberty and eternal life through your own eyes. That's all I have for today. Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow and you know that I hope you are too.