Feeling Inspired

I have needed a day like today for weeks now. Sure today had it set backs and sad moments but then I had time to focus on the beautiful words that have lifted my soul lately. To start off the day it was Fast Sunday. I had really been looking forward to going to church. Church always makes me feel better about life. The purpose of my fast today was to feel closer to Christ. To feel that my faith was based on something so real and true. In my past whenever I have gotten back on track the adversary tries to work on me in different ways since the old methods don't work any longer. The major thing I have got to rise above is how he brings doubt into my life. About everything from who I am to where I'm going and what I believe. I felt the spirit testifying to me in so many ways today. There is no way I could deny it. The Gospel is so real. I know with out it I would not be on this earth this present day. My brothers family and I went camping this past weekend. When they were putting the kids to bed I was sitting by the fire having discomforting thoughts. Tanya came outside and she started telling me a lesson she had in Seminary in High School. She said the teacher had a 50 ft string stretched across the class room. In the middle of it was a metal washer. He said that the left side of the washer was our pre- mortal life and the right side was our future life through the eternities. The washer represented our earthly life and how the choices we make here effect eternity. I felt the spirit so strong and she didn't even know how I was feeling. That moment brought me back to the perspective that we are here but a moment. There is so much more to the plan of salvation. The free agency we have now determines everything for our next life. I need to not stress, worry, & think all the time about what I need to do and just live. Repentance is real. The Atonement is so real! I thought of the Sons of Perdition. Those who deny the Holy Ghost after believing. I know this is where the Adversary wants me and I refuse to give in. As Boyd K. Packer has said: "Your mind is a stage, you can only entertain one thing at a time". Let yourself believe and have faith in what you know is true. Don't let the things of the world stand in your way.