"God does not compel us to believe any more than He compels us to keep any commandments, despite His perfect desire to bless us. Yet His call to us to believe in Him—to exercise that particle of faith and to give place for His words—remains in effect today. As the Savior said, “I bear record that the Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in me.”
"Belief and testimony and faith are not passive principles. They do not just happen to us. Belief is something we choose—we hope for it, we work for it, and we sacrifice for it. We will not accidentally come to believe in the Savior and His gospel any more than we will accidentally pray or pay tithing. We actively choose to believe, just like we choose to keep other commandments." -- Elder L. Whitney Clayton, Choose to Believe, April 2015
That's a really good quote. We do choose. I like how he says believing in the Savior doesn't accidentally happen, just like praying and paying tithing doesn't accidentally happen. True.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful for the Gospel. Happy Sabbath.