He who seeks God has already found him

 

“It was an English novelist who was quoted as saying:

 

“He who seeks God has already found him.”

 

Harold B. Lee

“However large the kingdom of God will grow and it will fill the earth, you will not ever feel lost or forgotten, and you need never feel overwhelmed. God will call people to care about you and to teach you.”

Henry B. Eyring

 

“….. we compromise our blessings, we rationalize ourselves out of the sure and safe way,

 

when we do not ask our God to guide us in the decisions that are part of our daily lives.”

 

Marvin J. Ashton

 

“Sometimes those blessings in our lives that we have yet to receive lie beyond the scope of mortal eyes.”

 

Anne C. Pingree

When you are living a virtuous life, you are attracted to things that are virtuous. When your thoughts have been flooded with goodness, you are drawn to things that are good. The principle works the other direction too. When you have given the world the reins to your desires, you begin to drift toward those things that satisfy the world that is in you. There is a light in everyone who is born into this world. It is attracted to light. Goodness is attracted and drawn to goodness. The more we increase in light, the stronger that desire grows. The more we fill our lives with things of the Spirit, the more we seek  for an added measure. Feeding the wrong desires though, leads to the loss of light. As we turn our attention to the appetites of the flesh think, say, and act like we love something else more than God–our attraction to light begins to lessen. Sometimes a person can get to the point where they have spent so much time in the shadow that their eyes have adjusted, and the sudden burst of light causes a retracting reaction. Perhaps this is why some are repulsed by those who are filled with light. They are bothered by what they say and do and stand for.

In reality they are bothered by their own misdirection. The light that still glows dimly inside  still taps and hopes they recognize and remember that they are meant to be in the light.

But that would require change. And change can be painful. But so good.

So welcome to a new day. A new round of tug of war in the heart. A dual nature–attracted in opposite directions. It’s time to stand in the light. And receive more light. And then you will find yourself surrounded by good.

It will flock to you.

Emily Freeman

 

Turn your face to the SON and all of the Shadows fall Behind You.

 

 

We should look to the Lord for our blessings because, among other reasons, he owns everything.

 

Hartman Rector, Jr.

“When we encounter challenges and problems in our lives, it is often difficult for us to focus on our blessings. However, if we reach deep enough and look hard enough, we will be able to feel and recognize just how much we have been given.”

Thomas S. Monson

“Write down your blessings. Recording our blessings in a journal helps focus our minds on them and enables us to recall them later when we may have forgotten. Others, too, might benefit. President Spencer W. Kimball said, “Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. ‘Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity’

 

Carolyn Wright