2.7 Choose to Walk in the Lord's Way

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends.

Great to have you with me. Today, let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. Today, we're going to continue inside of Doctrine and Covenants, Section 1.

We're going to move just a few verses from yesterday's as we talked about it. And inside of these verses, our verse for today is actually Doctrine and Covenants, Section 1, Verse 16. The Lord is describing what those who do not give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, what they look like, the way that they're living.

They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall. Now again, this sounds like some ominous words from the Lord here, and yet there's a piece inside of this that I can't help but realize that I'm seeing in my life around me. Did you catch the phrase at the beginning of that verse?

He says, They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way. Now, I don't know about you, but today I hear often people that say, 'ah, I have found my truth.' Or they say, 'ah, I have really become my authentic self.' And you know, it's really kind of interesting because the image that comes to mind here is that I actually want the Lord's input in becoming who I'm going to become. And let me give you an example of why I want that input.

See, I see our life experience as kind of like the maze of life. And I don't know, maybe in my mind it's like the big Harry Potter maze. What is that, in book four or something like that?

Where there's the big maze during the Triwizard Tournament. Is that what it is? And these hedges are up, and the hedges are super big.

And at first we go into the maze, and some of us go into the maze with like blindfolds on. We don't even have our eyes open. We're just feeling around in life.

We're just trying to figure life out. And then there are those that take the blindfold off, and they go, 'Hey everyone, I can see.' And they start going through the maze of life. And some of them go correct paths.

Some of them are figuring the path out. But the hedges are still like 15 feet tall. And yet everyone says, 'Oh, come follow me over here.

I figured out the path over here. Oh, come do my thing over here.' And people tend to say that they're finding their own truths and their own way. The way that I see the Lord in this example is the Lord has the bird's eye view of the maze.

The Lord isn't down in the maze with us. He's above it, and he sees every possible scenario and path that we could take in our lives. So for me, why wouldn't I want to turn to the Lord and seek his understanding in my life?

Why wouldn't I want the Lord to help provide his divine eyesight into my life? The Lord sees me through divine eyes, and he sees my divine potential, my infinite potential, ahead of me. Why wouldn't I want him as an advisor and a source of direction in my life?

So for you and for me today, as we see this list of warning from the Lord in verses 14, 15, and 16, it's an opportunity for us to pause and realize that we're not trying to find our own paths in the world. We're trying to find the Lord's path. You see, at the beginning of 16, these people seek not the Lord or to establish His righteousness.

I want to be on the other side of that coin. I want to seek the Lord because by so doing, the path through the maze for me becomes enlightened. It becomes brighter.

It becomes easier when I have the Lord guiding me and telling me the steps that I can take in my life to draw closer to God. That's exciting. And that's all for today, my friends.

Lift up your heart and rejoice. Cleave unto the covenants you've made, and together we will be savory salt. We'll see you next week.