When You Love God Keep His Commandments

It says in John 14: 5 "If ye love me, keep my commandments." one of the ways you can show God your love is to keep his commandments. Why do you think God wants us to keep his commandments? He asked us to follow them because he loves us. he wants us to be able to live with him and his son after this life. The only way we can do that is to do what he has asked and that is to keep his commandments. Alma says in Alma 11: 37 "And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven? Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins.". The only way you can be saved is to do just as he askeds "If ye love me, keep my commandments.". We need to strive to always be clean. I know that that is the way we can live with God and his son for ever.

There is more to Being some one then Doing some thing

To Do and to Be work together, but to do is one thing and to be is a better thing. Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy said "The Savior often denounced those who did without being—calling them hypocrites: “This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me” (Mark 7:6). To do without to be is hypocrisy, or feigning to be what one is not—a pretender." So, just as they say, don't just do good things, be a good thing. When you become a good thing you are becoming more Christ like. So as you go through life don't just be close to Christ with your lips but be close to him with your heart. What are some of the ways you can come closer to Christ with your heart? The best place to start is to come up to him through baptism with the proper power and authority, or, in other words, by some one holding the priesthood of God.

What is the priesthood? It is the authority to act in God's name.

We learn about this from Matthew3:13-15, "13Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be ^abaptized of him.14But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?15And Jesus answering said unto him, ^aSuffer it to be so now: for thus it ^bbecometh us to ^cfulfil all ^drighteousness. Then he suffered him." Why did Jesus come John? He came to John because he was the only one that had the priesthood of God and had the authority to baptise men. We all need to follow Christ's example and be baptised by some one holding the priesthood so that we can be clean from all of our sins and get the gift of the Holy Ghost so that we can be led by the Hold Ghost and be a better person. When we do this we can become a better person and not just do good things.

What do I want to be?

What do I want to be? or better yet, Who am I? now I'm going to ask you to do some thinking. So who am i? I am (state your name)? My parents are? I work at? My address is? Now that you thought of that you still have not answered, who am I? So who am I? I am a son or daughter of God our loving heavenly father. When I think of it that way there is so much more to it. Now I think if i am that, a son or daughter of God, and he loves me then what does he want me to do. All he ever asks of us is to live the commandments that he has given us so that we can be good boys and girls and come and live with him again. I know that it can be hard to live the commandments some times but if you look in to the Scriptures you can see that we can do it but some times we just have to stretch ourselves some times but 1 Nephi 3:7 says "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I ^awill go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no ^bcommandments unto the children of men, save he shall ^cprepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." I love that Scripture so much because it shows that sometimes it might be hard but the lord will prepare a way for us to accomplish the things that he commands us to do. When things seem like they are hard to do or it is hard to be a good boy or girl just remember that the Lord will help you and just say a prayer and ask for help. I can say you will be able to over come anything. Always remember that the Lord will bless you for doing what is right. You will not be eternally disadvantaged for doing what is right.